"Quite sure," she answered positively.
"But he is going away?" persisted the judge.
"Yes, I want him to go—I am sending him away," she replied.
The lawyer was silent. He sat and looked at her as if trying to read her thoughts. Then quietly he said:
"Do you know they intend to make Robert Underwood the ground for the application for divorce, and to use your own perjured testimony as a weapon against you? You see what a lie leads to. There's no end to it, and you are compelled to go on lying to support the original lie, and that's precisely what I won't permit."
Annie nodded acquiescence.
"I knew you were going to scold me," she smiled.
"Scold you?" he said kindly. "No—it's myself I'm scolding. You did what you thought was right, and I allowed you to do what I knew was wrong."
"You made two miserable women happy," she said quietly.
The lawyer tried to suppress a smile.