"I cannot look at you."
"When you are free----"
"Free!" Her voice rising in despair, fell again into despair. "I shall never be free."
"You shall, and that speedily, Alice!" She could imagine the blood surging into Kimberly's neck and face as he spoke. "I am growing fearful that I cannot longer stand the thought of his being under the same roof with you."
"He cannot even speak to me except before Annie."
Kimberly paused. "I do not like it. I want it changed."
"How can I change it?"
"We shall find a way, and that very soon, to arrange your divorce from him."
"It is the one word, the one thought that crushes me." She turned toward him as if with a hard and quick resolve. "You know I am a Catholic, and you know I am ashamed to say it."
"Ashamed?"