“How could you know?”
“I heard him tell her.”
“You heard him! Do you ask me to believe that he told her that in your presence?”
“I heard him on the dictagraph.”
“You have been collecting evidence for divorce, then?”
“No, I was collecting it to assure myself that the gossip I had heard was false—and to submit to you.”
“But why to me?”
“When I first learned of this hideous situation my first impulse was to rush to the courts. I went to church instead. I heard your sermon. It stopped me from seeing a lawyer.”
“I am glad my poor words have served some useful end.”
“But have they?”