I laughed.
“Oh, come now; you mustn’t think us such fools as all that. We happen to know that you came away with a woman.”
He gave a little start, and then suddenly burst into a shout of laughter. He laughed so uproariously that people sitting near us looked round, and some of them began to laugh too.
“I don’t see anything very amusing in that.”
“Poor Amy,” he grinned.
Then his face grew bitterly scornful.
“What poor minds women have got! Love. It’s always love. They think a man leaves only because he wants others. Do you think I should be such a fool as to do what I’ve done for a woman?”
“Do you mean to say you didn’t leave your wife for another woman?”
“Of course not.”
“On your word of honour?”