He tramped up and down until I pushed a chair in his way and made him sit down.
"Women are beyond me," he complained. "I don't know the rights of the case, but she says he was very insulting to her."
"But when was all this?" I asked. "I didn't know she'd seen him."
"Oh, it was years ago—down at Crowley—before he went abroad. Raney's got a very sharp tongue and keeps no sort of check on it, you know."
"Yes, I don't defend what he said on that occasion," I put in.
Loring looked at me in surprise.
"You knew about it?"
"I was in the room," I said, "and anything I didn't hear he came and told me in my bedroom that night."
"Well, what the devil did he say?" he demanded indignantly.
"It's ancient history now, Jim."