She made an effort to retain her stiffening.
"Isn't Mrs. Tietjens a truthful person?" she asked. "I thought she looked truthful when I saw her at Vincent and Ethel's."
He said:
"What she says she believes. But she only believes what she wants to, for the moment. If you call that truthful, she's truthful. I've nothing against her." He said to himself: "I'm not going to appeal to her by damning my wife."
She seemed to go all of a piece, as the hard outline goes suddenly out of a piece of lump sugar upon which you drop water.
"Oh," she said, "it isn't true. I knew it wasn't true." She began to cry.
Christopher said:
"Come along. I've been answering tomfool questions all day. I've got another tomfool to see here, then I'm through."
She said:
"I can't come with you, crying like this."