It is too bad that I cannot depend on
you after so long, and with the children. You were sitting close to
that woman, and--and your arms; you were kissing."
"I have her garter on my bureau."
"Stop." Her anger now raised her above petty sallies. "I have stood a
great deal from you, but there is more I simply won't. Do you
understand? I've always done my duty and I'll make you do yours. I
never have looked at another man, nor been kissed, except that horrid
one last July at the Golf Club." While she paused, breathless, he put
in that it might do her good. "Oh, I see," she spoke slowly: "you think
that would give you an excuse. If I did it I couldn't complain about
your nasty affairs. How cheap and easy I must seem. You ought to be
ashamed to try to trick me."
"If you are going to fly at conclusions you can sit in the tree alone,"
he protested. "It's amazing where you have arrived from nothing. Let me
tell you that I won't be ragged like this; if you think so much of our
life why do you make it hideous with these degrading quarrels? You
would never learn that way if there was the slightest, the slightest,
cause for your bitterness. You have all you want, haven't you? The
house and grounds are planted with your flowers, you are bringing up
the children to be like yourself. I don't specially care for this," he
made a comprehensive gesture; "building an elaborate place to die in
doesn't appeal to me.
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