"End it?"
"We can't go on living together. Why should we?"
"So? Divorce? Is that it?"
Alaire nodded.
"Well, I'll be damned!" Ed was dumfounded. "Isn't this rather sudden?" he managed to inquire.
"Oh no. You've suggested it more than once."
"I thought you didn't believe in divorces—couldn't stomach 'em? What's happened?"
"I have changed my mind."
"Humph! People don't change their minds in a minute," he cried, angrily. "Is there some other man?"
Now Ed Austin had no faintest idea that his wife would answer in the affirmative, for he had long ago learned to put implicit confidence in her, and her life had been so open that he could not imagine that it held a double interest. Therefore her reply struck him speechless.