The mayor reeled, then sprang forward with his hand outstretched for his secretary's throat.

But his words were for his wife.

"What does this mean?
Why do you take your stand by the side of another man than myself?
What have I done or what have you done that I should live to face such an abomination as this ?" It was Steele who answered, with a lift of his head as full of assertion as it was of triumph.
"You?
nothing; she?
everything.

You do not know this woman, Mayor Packard; for instance, you do not know her name." "Not know her name?
My wife's ?" "Not in the least.

This lady's name is Brainard.