"Wait; you have not heard all.

He uses the three letters as a means of extorting money from me.
Now he threatens that if I do not lend it to him, he will show them to my husband." Basil sprang from his seat, with a hot flush on his handsome young face.
"I will shoot him!" he said.

"Such a man is not fit to breathe the air of heaven." "Hush!" she said again.

"You cannot help me unless you are calm.

My husband does not love me, Basil.