“And that was all?”
“Wasn’t that enough?”
“Ben learned that you intended to make money out of him. Mr. Flack was to pay you fifty dollars a year for his services, and this you intended to put into your own pocket. That was your object in making the arrangement.”
“I only did what I had a right to do. But you haven’t told me where the boy is.”
“I don’t know, but he had some idea of going to New York.”
“Did he tell you this?”
“Yes.”
“Then why didn’t you tell me?”
“Because I thought the boy had enough to contend against without his mother turning against him.”
“It seems to me you have very peculiar ideas of the duties of a wife, Mrs. W.”