"He didn't wish me to speak to you on the subject, but I've determined to take matters into my own hands. In the face of Mr. Stanley's charges, I must know the truth."
"You had better obey your husband."
"I'm responsible to him for that matter, not to you, Miss Fitzgerald. Now tell me, what did Mr. Stanley mean?"
"He meant what he said."
"But how could Mr. Lambert have told him an untruth?"
"Mr. Lambert told him what he believed to be the truth; and that was, that he had not married you and Jack—Lieutenant Kingsland, I mean."
"Was that all he told him?"
"I should think it highly probable that he added that he had married your husband to me."
"My husband to you!"
"I told you we'd better let this matter alone."