Please understand me.

Your conduct for the last twelve months absolves me from any tie there may be between us.

If this explanation that you promise comes--in time, and I feel like it, very well.

Until it does, I am perfectly free, and you, as my husband, are non-existent.

That is my reply, Henry, to your request for further indulgence." "Rather a foolish one, my dear," he answered, patting her shoulder, "but then you are rather a child, aren't you ?" She swung away from him angrily.
"Don't touch me!" she exclaimed.