"You mean the Bankruptcy Court," snapped his wife.
"Perhaps I mean the Divorce Court," was his tart reply, but she was quite ready with an answer.
"On your own part, then; you can't say a word against me."
"Who said I could? You've got the one virtue that gives its name to the rest, and think yourself an angel."
"I had your assurance that I was an angel--once."
"No doubt. It's the sort of thing a man has to say to the woman he is engaged to."
"And never says to the woman he is married to!"
"Marriage isn't all honey, Leah, and----"
"Heavens!" Lady Jim addressed the ceiling; "as if I required telling. But compared with other women, Jim, I am not----"
"I never said you were," interrupted Kaimes, crossly. "I'd screw your neck if you went on like other women."