“Well — oh, it was about what you’d expect of Sidney. This Miss Framley seemed very nice. She looked at it from my viewpoint.”
“How had she found out you were really Sidney’s wife? How had she found you under the name of Corla Burke?”
“She didn’t say — just wrote this brief letter.”
“I see. Now when the proposition was all boiled down, unless you promised Sidney Jannix enough money to start up in business, he was going to prevent your marriage. If you’d promise to take care of him from money you could get from your husband, he was going to sit back and let you become the goose that would lay his golden eggs.”
“Well, if you want to look at it that way.”
“It’s the only way to look at it.”
“Then you think this Helen Framley was—”
“I don’t think Helen Framley ever wrote the letter.”
“But she told me to reply to her.”
“And you did?”