He was the very reverse of calm.

"And you refuse to tell me what you wrote," he said.
"The letter is there," she answered, pointing away towards the door.
"If you want to play the spy, go and look at it for yourself." "Do you call me a spy ?" "And what have you called me?
Because you are a husband, is the privilege of vituperation to be all on your side ?" "It is impossible that I should put up with this," he said;--"quite impossible.

This would kill me.

Anything is better than this.

My present orders to you are not to see Colonel Osborne, not to write to him or have any communication with him, and to put under cover to me, unopened, any letter that may come from him.