“Yes, of course.”
“And that was the letter that Arthur Whitewell dictated?”
“He didn’t dictate it.”
“But he knew about what was in it?”
“Yes.”
“I want to know about that,” I said.
“Well, I had it coming to me. I deserved everything I got. I don’t suppose I can ever explain it to you. I could never explain it to anyone, not even myself. But — well, I just had crossed those three months when I had been married to Sidney Jannix out of my life. I wrote them off as a bad experience, and—”
“By that you mean you didn’t tell Philip anything about them?”
She nodded.
“And Philip knew nothing whatever about Sidney Jannix or about your having been married?”