I'm afraid of the strain of this interview——!

[Pauses.]

—You've never told me, dear—for what was your father imprisoned?

Vaughan

[Deliberately.]

He made a speech against the war in our town in Missouri and printed it in a pamphlet——

Betty

Oh—for making and circulating seditious writing——

Vaughan

Technically, yes—in reality for exercising the right of free speech on a policy of the government——