Ethel smiled her most enigmatical smile:
"No? I think you do." She waited a moment. Brent said nothing. This was a new mood of Ethel's. It baffled him.
Presently she relieved the silence by asking him:
"What happened last night?"
He hesitated. Then he answered:
"I'd rather not say. I'd sound like a cad blaming a woman."
"Never mind how it sounds. Tell it. It must have been amusing."
"Amusing? Good God!" He bent over her again. "Oh, the more I look at you and listen to you, the more I realise I should never have married."
"Why DID you?" came the cool question.
Brent answered with all the power at his command. Here was the moment to lay his heart bare that Ethel might see.