Tell her, will you, that it's done in some first-class fights ?" "I'll explain," answered Vincent.
"And there ain't any use in the story's getting about," Burke added.
"It won't," said Vincent.

On which assurance Marty went away and left the husband and wife alone.
Adelaide got up and went to the window and looked out toward the Palisades.

Marty Burke had been a symbol that enabled her to recall some of her former attitudes of mind.

She remembered that dinner where she had pitted him against her husband.

She felt deeply humiliated in her own sight and in Vincent's, for she was now ready to believe that he had read her mind from the beginning.