She gave him her eyes at last, and they were wet but beaming. "I doubted it still more from one or two things he said when we had our little scene in the country; but I knew there wasn't a word of truth in it before you said a dozen words to me the other Sunday! It was all a plot to keep us apart—to get me under his thumb."
"Did he threaten you when you—had your little scene?"
"Not in so many words."
"He will. That's where I shall come in."
"His position was that I and my secret would only be safe with him."
"As it never was with me?"
"That was it; but now he knows that I don't believe him. I told him so when he called last week."
"So you have had another little scene?"
"I cut it short at that."
"And there the matter ended?"