"How did I get here?" she asked.
He told her in the bitterest words he had ever used.
"You are utterly disgraced. Some of those men may hold their tongues but others will not. By this time it is probably all over the Union Club. You are an outcast from this time forth."
"That means nothing to me. And I warned you."
"It is nothing to you that you have disgraced me also, I suppose?"
"No. You made an outcast of Langdon Masters. You wrecked his life and will be the cause of his early death. Meanwhile he is in the gutter. I am glad that I am publicly beside him…. Still, I would have spared you if I could. You are a good man according to your lights. If you had heeded my warning and made no foolish attempts to cure me, no one would have been the wiser."
"Several of the women knew it. And if you had taken advantage of the opportunity given you by Sally I think they would have guarded your secret. You have publicly disgraced them as well as yourself and your husband."
"Well, what shall you do? Throw me into the street? I wish that you would."
"No, I shall try to cure you again."
"And have a wife that your friends will cut dead? You'd be far better off if I were dead."