Then she seemed to see him let himself go.

"When a person's of the nature you speak of there are always other persons to suffer.

But you've just been describing to me what you'd take, if you had once a good chance, from your husband." "Oh, I'm not talking about my husband!" "Then whom, ARE you talking about ?" Both the retort and the rejoinder had come quicker than anything previously exchanged, and they were followed, on Maggie's part, by a momentary drop.

But she was not to fall away, and while her companion kept his eyes on her, while she wondered if he weren't expecting her to name his wife then, with high hypocrisy, as paying for his daughter's bliss, she produced something that she felt to be much better.

"I'm talking about YOU." "Do you mean I've been your victim ?" "Of course you've been my victim.