"Then Mr. Clinton deceived me!"
"He agreed to hide everything, if I'd send you away."
"Oh, I see! So even he is one of Fran's allies. Never mind—did you say that when you married the second time, your first wife was living, and had never been divorced?"
"But Grace—dear Grace! I thought it all right I believed—"
She did not seem to hear him. "Then she is not your wife," she said in a low whisper.
"She believes—"
"She believes!" Her voice rose scornfully. "And so that is the fact Fran wanted hidden; you are not really bound to Mrs. Gregory."
"Not legally—but—"
"In what way, then?"
"Why, in no regular way—I mean—but don't you see, there could be no marriage now to make it binding, without telling her—"