"You mean to know just what's what, do you?
You listen to your sister insinuating ugly things about your wife, and then you come home making a scene before the servants and humiliating me in their presence! Do you suppose that Irish girl didn't hear every word you said?
You go in there and eat your dinner alone! Go on! Go and eat your dinner alone--because I won't eat with you!" And she broke away from the detaining grasp he sought to fasten upon her, and dashed up the stairway, panting.

He heard the door of her room slam overhead, and the sharp click of the key in the lock..