I knew ye'd tell me when the time come and it has, with ye nigh crazy, and she on her way to Sing Sing.

What she's been through since that night I brought her here, I don't know--but she'd 'a' broke your heart if ye'd seen her staggerin' weak, followin' me and John like a whipped dog.

I thought then she had got the worst of it, somehow, and that she hadn't deserved what had been handed out to her, and John thought so, too.

What it was I didn't know, but I've got somebody now who does know and who will tell me the truth, and I'm askin' ye to give it to me straight.
If she was your wife she must be a lady, for ye wouldn't 'a' married anybody else.

And if she was a lady, how has it happened that she is locked up in the Tombs, and that a gentleman like ye is working at Otto's?
And before ye answer, remember that I'm not askin' for meself, but for you and the poor woman ye tried to find to-day." His tired eyes had not left her own during the long outburst.