He blushed.
'A good many.... I never meant to conceal it. Truly I didn't. I just didn't mention it.... You were so happy, chicken; so was I. I hadn't been happy before—not like that.'
'She can ruin us.... Do you know that? She has only to go up to the nearest policeman and ruin us. Do you know that?'
'She won't.... She'd never dare.'
'She would.... I'm young. That's the unpardonable thing in a woman....'
'I don't understand,' said Charles, sitting down suddenly. And quite perceptibly he did not understand that any one, man or woman, could deliberately hurt another.
'But you must understand,' she cried. 'You must understand.... You must protect yourself.'
'How can I?'
'She is your wife. You must give her what she wants.'
'Money? Oh, yes.'