"So that is why you've come back!" he blazed furiously.
"No! No!" she protested, frightened, struggling to her feet with arms outstretched. "I came to see our boy—our Raymond! To beg you—to——"
"Leave the house"
The flaming scorn in his eyes stopped her.
"And I was on the point of yielding!" His laugh made the woman wince. "What a fool I was! I actually believed you! So he is dead, is he?"
She bowed her head in utter despair.
"I wrote—to tell you."
"And now that he is dead you thought of me again—of me, of your idiot of a husband"—his voice rose with fury—"the simple-minded fool who would be only too glad to take you back again!"
"Louis, I love you—I wanted to see you, to see our child again! Can't you see I've changed?" she pleaded. She threw open her arms and tears ran unheeded down her face.