"You?" asked Ethel, in surprise.
"My thoughts! My actions!"
"How curious."
"You mean you would?"
"Probably."
"I'm sure of it." He tried to take her hand. She drew it away, and settled herself comfortably to listen again:
"Tell me more about your wife."
"The slightest attention shown to any other woman meant a ridiculous—a humiliating scene."
"Humiliating?"
"Isn't doubt and suspicion humiliating?"