(Rising to his feet and beginning to pace perturbedly up and down.) The cur!
Margaret
(Quietly.) I believe, among other things, I told him he was that myself.
(She laughs cynically.) Oh, it was a pretty family party, I assure you. Mother said she didn't believe it—but that was only hysteria. Of course she believes it—the worst. So does Connie—everybody.
Knox
(Stopping abruptly and looking at her horror-stricken.) You don't mean they charged——?
Margaret
No; I don't mean that. I mean more. They didn't charge. They accepted it as a proven fact that I was guilty. That you were my—lover.
Knox
On that man's testimony?