“Stay here, old Cheetah!” she said. “This is your house. I am your wife.”
He went towards the unfastened front door.
“Cheetah!” she cried with a note of despair.
He halted at the door.
“Amanda, I will come to-morrow. I will come in the morning, in the sober London daylight, and then we will settle things.”
He stared at her, and to her amazement he smiled. He spoke as one who remarks upon a quite unexpected fact....
“Never in my life, Amanda, have I seen a human being that I wanted so little to kill.”
29
White found a fragment that might have been written within a week of those last encounters of Benham and Amanda.
“The thing that astonished me most in Amanda was the change in her mental quality.