There was one at breakfast about my cat and another at lunch about the wine.

He fancied it was corked." Olivia had perceived clearly that since Elizabeth Twitcher had been a witness of her husband's outburst about Grey, it would be merely foolish not to be frank about it.
"But the last matter was very much more serious than the matter of the cat or the wine," said Mr.Flexen.

"You don't think that your husband brooded on it for the rest of the evening and worked himself up into a dangerous frame of mind ?" Olivia hesitated.

She was quite sure that her husband had done nothing of the kind, for if he had worked himself up into a dangerous frame of mind he would assuredly have made some effort to get at her and give some violent expression to it.

But she said: "That I can't say.