"Nothing at all?" she insisted, gravely.
"Never! I leave it to you if I've written one good word of him."
"You've written of the treatment he has received here," she began, "and I've been able to see what he has borne—and bears!"
"But have I written one word to show that he didn't deserve it all? Haven't I told you everything, of his associates, his—"
"Indeed you have!"
"Then do you wonder that I was more surprised than most when I saw you walking with him to-day? Because I knew you did it in cold blood and knowledge aforethought! Other folks thought it was because you hadn't been here long enough to hear his reputation, but I KNEW!"
"Tell me," she said, "if you were disappointed when you saw me with him."
"Yes," he snapped. "I was!"
"I thought so. I saw the consternation in your face! You APPROVED, didn't you?"
"I don't know what you're talking about!"