"Maurice Jourdain did."
"You don't mean to say you're still thinking of that man?"
"Not thinking exactly. Only wondering. Wondering what it was he hated so."
"You wouldn't wonder if you knew the sort of man he is. A man who could threaten you with his infidelity."
"He never threatened me."
"I suppose it was me he threatened, then."
"What did he say?"
"He said that if his wife didn't take care to please him there were other women who would."
"He ought to have said that to me. It was horrible of him to say it to you."
She didn't know why she felt that it was horrible.