She clasped her arms tightly, awkwardly, and stepped about the floor, her broken shoes showing beneath her cotton skirt.
"When a family once gets talked about for any reason----" said Ina and shuddered.
"I'm talked about now!"
"But nothing that you could help. If he got tired of you, you couldn't help that." This misstep was Dwight's.
"No," Lulu said, "I couldn't help that. And I couldn't help his other wife, either."
"Bigamy," said Dwight, "that's a crime."
"I've done no crime," said Lulu.
"Bigamy," said Dwight, "disgraces everybody it touches."
"Even Di," Lulu said.
"Lulu," said Dwight, "on Di's account will you promise us to let this thing rest with us three?"