When you were at Oxford, was Honoria maintaining you there ?" "If you must know--yes." "And when--when this happened, she stopped the supplies ?" "Yes." "Well, then, I didn't know it.

She never told me." "She never told _me_." "You don't say--" "I do.

I never knew it until too late." "Well, now, I'm going to fight you.

I don't swallow being called a liar.

But I tell you this first, that I'm damned sorry.