Each of us was working alone--and we thought we were working in spite of each other--against each other.

I was against you in his office, you were against me in his home.

And because you hadn't any idea of what I was trying, you made him work for money for me--to buy me off! But I don't want money--alone, I mean! And when he came and said he was rich, it frightened me--I wasn't ready--I had no friends! And so the money only brought back my sister's friends in a perfect horde--and with them her memory--her influence--her husband! "Oh, can't you understand what I mean--and how I'm placed and what it's like?
Can't you believe that I want in him exactly what you want yourself?
But it hasn't been easy! Don't you see?
I am only a second wife! She's here--she has been--all the time--like a ghost--and we never speak her name! But if you will only work with me--" She stopped with a quick turn of her head.

They listened, and heard Joe's key in the door.

In a moment he had entered the hall.
"Hello.