"Do you understand now that she got the libretto in order to show it to Madame Sennier?"
"Did Gillier ever say so?"
"Of course not! Even if he knows it, do you think it was necessary he should—to a woman!"
The contempt in her voice seemed to cut into him. He began, against his will, to feel that Charmian must be right in her supposition, to believe that he had been tricked.
"We have no proof," he said.
Charmian raised her eyebrows and sank back on the divan. She was struggling against an outburst of tears. Her lips moved.
"Proof! Proof!" she said at last.
Her lips moved violently. She got up, and tried hurriedly to go by Claude into the gallery; but he put out a hand and caught her by the arm.
"Charmian!"
She tried to get away. But he held her.