‘I am your wife, and you are compelled to keep me.’
‘But not to see you.’
‘It would be better for you to give me the thousand down and get rid of me for ever.’
‘You know my decision.’
‘Ah, you don’t know what you are rejecting. You will repent your folly to the last day of your life.’
His only answer was to look at his watch.
‘This, then, is your programme,’ she resumed. ‘We shall reach London to-night, and part at the terminus?’
‘That is so.’
‘And I shall meet you at noon to-morrow at a certain address, when you will be prepared to inform me what my future income will be?’
He inclined his head gravely.