Charity sighed: “Divorce! And me to be named!”
“She won't do that. She owes you everything.”
“What an ideal chance to pay off the debt!”
“Don't you worry. I'll protect you,” Jim insisted.
“How?” said Charity.
“I'll fight the case to the limit.”
“Are you so eager to keep your wife?” said Charity.
“No. I never did love her. I'll never forgive her for this.”
But he had not the courage to go and meet Kedzie and her mother and her father. They were an unconscionable time coming.
He did not know that Kedzie and Skip Magruder were renewing old acquaintance.