"No."
"What do you mean? That you do not know whether your wife is living or dead?"
"Quite so."
"Have you heard from her since you saw her last?"
"I had one letter."
Kitty Tynan thought of the unopened letter in a woman's handwriting in the green baize desk in her mother's house.
"No more?"
"No more."
"Are we to understand that you do not know whether your wife is living or dead?"
"I have no information that she is dead."