He waited with ill-concealed impatience until Norris had withdrawn, then he turned to her afresh.
"Mrs.Witcherley!" he cried, "you see before you an outraged man!" He made the announcement fiercely and theatrically; but, to any ear, it would have been evident that, below the instinctive desire for dramatic effect, his voice trembled with genuine agitation--his speech was charged with violent feeling.

To Enid, watching him with surprise and curiosity, it was patent at a glance that some circumstance, strange in its occurrence or vital in its issue, had shaken him to the base of his emotional nature.

And as she looked at him her own coldness, her own humiliation, suddenly forsook her.
"What is it ?" she cried, involuntarily.

"What is it?
Something has happened ?" For one moment his answer was delayed--held back by the torrent of words that rushed to his lips; then, at last, as his tongue freed itself, he threw out his hands in a fierce gesture.
"Outrage! Outrage and sacrilege!" he cried.

"We have been duped--deceived--tricked.