“I've nothing to say about that, Vigil. George has behaved abominably. I don't uphold him; but if the woman wishes the suit defended he can't play the cur—that's what I was brought up to believe.”
Gregory leaned his forehead on his hand.
“The whole system is odious——” he was beginning.
Mr. Paramor chimed in.
“Let us keep to the facts; without the system.”
The Rector spoke for the first time.
“I don't know what you mean about the system; both this man and this woman are guilty——”
Gregory said in a voice that quivered with rage:
“Be so kind as not to use the expression, 'this woman.'.rdquo;
The Rector glowered.