"The right of your husband!"
"I don't know the sources of that right, Jerry, but I question it. The rights of a husband and wife, it seems to me, must be agreed on between them. I have never demanded an accounting of your time, or where you spend it."
"That's a different matter. A husband has his honour to look out for."
"Honour is the common possession of the husband and the wife, as I see it, Jerry. She looks after it, just as he does."
"When a woman keeps a room and receives her lover there, it's time her husband looked into it."
Jane's face seemed to contract with the control she put on herself.
"You must explain that, Jerry."
"I saw Christiansen go there this morning to meet you."
"Jerry, you were spying?"
"It's my business to know, I tell you. Christiansen has given himself airs around here long enough. He can't make love to you...."