But it was for you to admit that I was right.

And you did not.

You dared not! You let another man blunder into your private affairs and fall a victim to circumstantial evidence which you could have refuted; and it was up to you to say something! And you did not! ...

And now--what are you going to do?
The Lenox Club has taken this thing up.

A man can't stand too much of that sort of thing.
What am I to do?
I can't defend myself by betraying my accidental knowledge of your petty, private affairs.