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And to himself he wondered: "Was it _that_--after all?
Is that the key to my dreadful inability to understand?
I cannot--I cannot accept it.

I know her; it was not that; it--it must not be!" And that night he wrote to her: "If he threatens you with divorce on such a ground he himself is likely to be adjudged mentally unsound.

It was a brutal, stupid threat, nothing more; and his insult to your father's memory was more brutal still.