There was no other way save to lie.
"How should I know?
It was enough for me to get her letter," she replied.
"At Castlegarry ?" What was there to do?
She must keep faith with Kitty, who had given her this sight of her husband again.
"Forwarded from Lammis," she said.

"It reached me before the doctor's cable." So it was Kitty--Kitty Tynan-who had brought his wife to this new home from which he had been trying so hard to get back to the old home.
Kitty, the angel of the house.
"You wrote me a letter which drove me from home," he said heavily.
"No--no--no," she protested.

"It was not that.

I know it was not that.
It was my money--it was that which drove you away.

You have just said so." "You wrote me a hateful letter," he persisted.