"Be—because he isn't—he isn't there—"
"Is he dead?"
"Oh, no! He's—he's—gone away on a—a business trip."
"You're making up, Azalea,—I see it in your face. Tell me the truth about him. Has he married again?"
"No,—oh, no."
"Well, then, where is he?"
"He's—I don't know—"
"You don't know where he is,—and yet you claim you had a letter from him!"
"You say I wrote that letter myself—"
"And you did!"