Sterling. Have you been spying on me?
Warden. Your wife's money!
Sterling. Well, she's my wife, and you don't know what you're talking about!
[He turns from him and picks up a book from the table upside down and pretends to read it.
Warden. You stole from me once when you were a boy!
Sterling. No! I didn't!
[Throwing the book down.
Warden. You lie! Do you hear me? You lie! [He waits a second. Sterling does nothing.] I was never sure till to-day! I fought against ever thinking it, believing my suspicions were an injustice to you, but little things were always disappearing out of my rooms—finally, even money. Lately, that old suspicion has come back with a fuller force, and to-day it became a certainty.
Sterling. How to-day?
Warden. Because if it weren't true, you'd have knocked me down just now when I called you first a thief and twice a liar!