It was a misunderstanding, Henry.
INGOLDSBY
It was not. I’ve held my peace in silence all these years because of my principles. I wouldn’t refer to such things with you when you had become a married woman. But I can speak now. You deliberately broke off with me—
MRS. BRIGGS (choking)
I didn’t!
INGOLDSBY (with a suppressed passion)
You did! (He paces the floor as he goes on.) You decided Lance Briggs was the better man, and you sent me my ring and letters without a single word explaining why you did it.
MRS. BRIGGS
Oh!
INGOLDSBY