"Is it possible that you have been as false to Jim as you were to me ?" "How rude you are, Jock!" she cried.

"I do wish that you would mind your own business." "There is only one person that it could be from," I cried.

"It is from this man de Lapp!" "And suppose that you are right, Jock ?" The coolness of the woman amazed and enraged me.
"You confess it!" I cried.

"Have you, then, no shame left ?" "Why should I not receive letters from this gentleman ?" "Because it is infamous." "And why ?" "Because he is a stranger." "On the contrary," said she, "he is my husband!".