If that's it, Poff, why did you ever come
back? And why did you ever marry her? You might have known; her
father was a swindler. She's begotten of deceit. She'll tell her
own story while you are away, and a pretty story she'll make of it."
"Do you want me to divorce her and make a scandal?"
"I never wanted you to go away from her. If you'd stayed and
watched her as a man should, as I begged you and implored you to do.
Didn't I tell you, Poff? Didn't I warn you?"
"But now what am I to do?"
"There you are! That's just a man's way. You get yourself into
this trouble, you follow your passions and your fancies and fads and
then you turn to me! How can I help you now, Poff? If you'd
listened to me before!"
Her blue eyes were demonstratively round.
"Yes, but--"
"I warned you," she interrupted. "I warned you. I've done all I
could for you. It isn't that I haven't seen through her. When she
came to me at first with that made-up story of a baby! And all
about loving me like her own mother. But I did what I could. I
thought we might still make the best of a bad job.
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