She's always following him about." Irene's eyes made him feel uncomfortable.
"You've no business to say such a thing!" she exclaimed.
"Why not?
Anybody can see it." "They cannot.

And if they could, it's disgraceful to say so." Soames's composure gave way.
"You're a pretty wife!" he said.

But secretly he wondered at the heat of her reply; it was unlike her.

"You're cracked about June! I can tell you one thing: now that she has the Buccaneer in tow, she doesn't care twopence about you, and, you'll find it out.

But you won't see so much of her in future; we're going to live in the country." He had been glad to get his news out under cover of this burst of irritation.