"Me responsible? Have you seen her husband?"
"I have."
"Well——" she left it to him.
"Where is Viveash?"
"At the moment he is in Liverpool, or should be—on business."
"You didn't ask him?"
"Ask him? Is he the sort you can ask?"
"Oh, come, he's not so bad."
"He's awful. He's impossible. He—he excuses everything."
"I don't see him excusing this, or your share in it. If he knew."