"How has your honor been affected?" returned Cameron gently.
"My God!—how hasn't it been affected! Didn't he run away with my wife?"
"He ran away with something that you say you don't want," Cameron pursued.
"That is why I don't want her—because she betrayed me."
"Because she betrayed you may be valid ground for you to kill her—it certainly isn't ground for killing him."
"Amherst is the man in the case, isn't he?"
"In the case with her—and her you have refused to recognize. The ethics of the situation are involved and debatable but I repeat that this much is clear: unless you are willing to take her back, you have no justification nor excuse for killing Amherst."
"As you said before!" Lorraine remarked.
"As I said before—and as I shall say twenty times, if necessary, until you see reason!"
"Suppose I had taken her back—what then?"