"You know perfectly well I haven't."
"As soon as your precious sister comes along, you let me be insulted. You don't say a word to defend me!"
"Darling," said her husband with grim humor, "you've said a good many to defend yourself."
But Gertie was not to be reached by humor, grim or otherwise.
"I'm sick and tired of being put upon. You must choose between us," she said, with an air of finality.
"What on earth do you mean?"
"If you don't make her apologize right now before the hired men, I'm quit of you."
"I can't make her apologize if she won't."
"Then let her quit."
"Oh, I wish I could! I wish to God I could!" said Nora wildly.