“If I didn’t, I shouldn’t have done it. The thing had to end.”
“And what next?”
“We’ve got to think of Jehane and her children. I’m wondering how much she knows or suspects.”
“She’ll never tell—— I wonder will she stand by him?”
There was silence.
Barrington spoke. “Ocky hinted at something to-night. It might be true—something that I never thought about. It explains those letters of Jehane’s. It explains why they’ve never got on together. I’ve always said that a little love would have made Ocky a better man.”
“Dear, what was it?”
“It dates a long way back. He said that Jehane had made our home and my love for you the standard of what she expected from——”
“I understand. And it is true, Billy. She wanted a man like you from the first.”
Silence.