"He wouldn't understand anything else." "I told him to call you that," said Burke.
"You--told him!" She gave a great start.

His words amazed her.
"Yes." There was a dogged quality in his answer.

"I had to protect you somehow.

He had seen us together at Ritzen.

I said you were my wife." Sylvia gasped in speechless astonishment.
He went on ruthlessly.