human
What name shall I tell Colonel Grayle?
gpt
The Sanctuary.
human
I hope you've not been waiting long, she said.
gpt
Vincent's usually home by this time. There's not an all-night sitting or anything, is there?
human
Not so far as I know, I answered.
gpt
Mrs. O'Rane, I don't think I'll stay any longer.
human
It's just as you like, she said.
gpt
It seems a pity to run away without seeing him, though. I presume you came to see him and not me?
human
I came to see him. I didn't know you were here.
gpt
But I've been here the whole time. Didn't you know that?
human
We didn't.
gpt
But where else was I likely to be?
human
Your husband never suspected that Grayle had any hand in it. I fancy you and Grayle did your best not to enlighten him. You let him think it was another man, and Grayle gave an alibi. I suppose it was all right; I'm not versed in the ethics of the thing.
gpt
Yes, I don't know why Vincent said that, she observed reflectively.
human
Unless he thought that nobody was ever going to know.... But I'm not _quite_ so abandoned as that. I warned you all, I told you my old married life was over; and I was free to start another. As for not enlightening anybody, it's not my business to correct all the mistakes people choose to make.... Now that you've been here, you can report everything you've seen. _I'm_ not hiding anything, and you can say I'm not ashamed of what I've done and I'm quite prepared for all the world to know. He can divorce me as soon as he likes.
gpt
You can tell him that,
human
I don't know that he contemplates divorcing you, I said.
gpt
He's never mentioned the subject.
human
But he'll have to. He can't go on being nominally married to me, when I'm--well ...
gpt
Are you sure you don't mean that your own position will be a shade less discreditable when Grayle marries you? I asked.
human
Frankly, you haven't been thinking of your husband very much, have you?
gpt
You will keep on speaking of him as my husband.
human
He is.
gpt
Until he divorces me.
human
Unless he divorces you,