How mad I was not to make inquiries! What a poor, short-sighted fool! But I will have my revenge! I will expose your accursed race in the courts! I will not rest content until I am free from this snare!" Margaret would have spoken, but her cousin quickly forestalled her.
"You bring two charges against your wife," Robert said.

"The first is that she deceived you before marriage; the second that she is deceiving you now.

You contemplate taking divorce proceedings against her ?" "I do." "But you are lying on both counts.

There is no purer or more honourable woman alive to-day than she who stands here at this moment.

You are a mean and despicable hound to endeavour to take advantage of circumstances attending her birth of which she was in profound ignorance." "She can tell that to a judge," sneered the Italian.