"She told me."
"When?"
"When you were building the fire last night. Also, she informed me that she had relentlessly dedicated herself to a eugenic marriage."
"When did she tell you that?"
"While you were bringing in a bucket of water from the lake last night. And furthermore, she told me that I was perfectly suited for a eugenic marriage."
"When did she tell you that?" I demanded.
"When she had—fainted—in my arms."
"How the devil did she come to say a thing like that?"
He became conspicuously red about the ears:
"Well, I had just told her that I had fallen in love with her—"