I could perhaps have given him an inkling for what, but I said nothing.

He started again: "My wife assures me that the girl does not love him a bit.

She goes by that letter she received from her.

There is a passage in it where she practically admits that she was quite unscrupulous in accepting this offer of marriage, but says to my wife that she supposes she, my wife, will not blame her--as it was in self-defence.

My wife has her own ideas, but this is an outrageous misapprehension of her views.
Outrageous." The good little man paused and then added weightily: "I didn't tell that to my brother-in-law--I mean, my wife's views." "No," I said.