.

." "What else did you expect ?" burst out Mrs Verloc.

"I was a respectable woman--" She paused, then added, as if speaking to herself, in sinister resentment: "Till he made me what I am." Ossipon let that pass, and took up his running.

"He never did seem to me to be quite worthy of you," he began, throwing loyalty to the winds.
"You were worthy of a better fate." Mrs Verloc interrupted bitterly: "Better fate! He cheated me out of seven years of life." "You seemed to live so happily with him." Ossipon tried to exculpate the lukewarmness of his past conduct.

"It's that what's made me timid.