She left the path and moved whither her companion was leading, over the stubby grass; it was wet, but for this she had no thought.
"How long have you been living in this way ?" he asked, turning to her again.
"You have no right to question me." "What!--no right?
Then who _has_ a right I should like to know ?" He did not speak harshly; his look expressed sincere astonishment.
"I don't acknowledge," said Lilian, with quivering voice, "that that ceremony made me your wife." "What do you mean?
It was a legal marriage.

Who has said anything against it ?" "You know very well that you did me a great wrong.

The marriage was nothing but a form of words." "On whose part?
Certainly not on mine.

I meant everything I said and promised.

It's true I hadn't been living in the right way; but that was all done with.