"She drives very well." It was not the sort of answer he was expecting. His desire was to argue.
"She didn't drive very well then," he said, with conviction.
"Was that a reason for your leaving her to drive home alone?"
Women were astounding!
"She ought to have let the chauffeur drive," he maintained.
"Ah! A man mustn't expect too much from a woman."
"But I was risking my life in that car! Do you mean to say I ought to have kept on risking it?"
"I don't express any opinion on that. That was for you
to decide.... You must admit it was very humiliating for poor Lois."
He felt himself cornered, but whether justly or unjustly he was uncertain.