The Way We Live Now

'I deny that,' exclaimed Hetta.

'And at the very time was almost living with this woman who says that she is divorced from her husband in America! Have you told him that you will see him no more?'

'He understood that.'

'If you have not told him so plainly, I must tell him.'

'Mamma, you need not trouble yourself. I have told him very plainly.' Then Lady Carbury expressed herself satisfied for the moment, and left her daughter to her solitude.