"Hell Hath No Fury--" Rita was not dead by any means--only seriously bruised, scratched, and choked.

Her scalp was cut in one place.

Aileen had repeatedly beaten her head on the floor, and this might have resulted seriously if Cowperwood had not entered as quickly as he had.

Sohlberg for the moment--for some little time, in fact--was under the impression that Aileen had truly lost her mind, had suddenly gone crazy, and that those shameless charges he had heard her making were the emanations of a disordered brain.

Nevertheless the things she had said haunted him.
He was in a bad state himself--almost a subject for the doctor.