"They've all turned against me.

But there's one that would have stood by me--she's dead!" His memory of her grew suddenly tender and tears filled his bleary eyes.
"She was all right--a good girl but stubborn," he proceeded in a maudlin way.

"Got the marriage craze! Wanted me to let my wife get a divorce and marry her! She didn't want to live dishonored all her life.

And she killed herself--poor Julia!" As the name dropped from his lips, Collins bolted upright in his chair.
"I'm going to the flat," he said.

"That's where I was happy." "Wait and we'll go with you," suggested Cooper on a nudge from the detective.
"All right," assented Collins.