Why, she played the outraged wife to perfection, slapped the transgressor and fled to you.

Pretty good proof of what all the beach has been saying.

Partners, eh ?--a business partnership?
Gammon my eye, that's what it is." Then it was that Sheldon struck out, coolly and deliberately, with all the strength of his arm, and Tudor, caught on the jaw, fell sideways, crumpling as he did so and crushing a chair to kindling wood beneath the weight of his falling body.

He pulled himself slowly to his feet, but did not offer to rush.
"Now will you fight ?" Tudor said grimly.
Sheldon laughed, and for the first time with true spontaneity.

The intrinsic ridiculousness of the situation was too much for his sense of humour.