"You'll soon know if you take it into a court of law."
"Who told you I was going to take it?"
"That's what I'm trying to get at. Are you?"
"Am I going to divorce her, you mean?"
That was what he had meant. It was also what he was afraid of, what he hoped to dissuade his nephew from. Above all things he dreaded the public scandal of divorce.
"Yes," he said. "Is it bad enough for that?"
"It's bad enough for anything. But I don't know what I'm going to do."
"Well, it won't do to have that young woman's name brought forward in the evidence."
"Who'd bring it?"
"Why, she might" (Randall's face was blank). "Your wife, if she defends the suit. That would be her game, you may be sure."