"But if I did believe it, I don't know that it would make much difference to me.

Fate, or God Almighty, or whatever it was, had stacked the cards against you.

When I said it was wicked, I meant you did wrong in rushing away from your husband and coming to me.

I suppose you have definitely left your husband--eh?
You've 'left' him, as they say ?" He had an incorrigible sense of humour, as well as an infinite common sense.

He wanted to break this spell of tense emotion which possessed her.