human
So this, said Mrs. Johnson Boller with deadly calm,
gpt
Beatrice! he cried.
human
I swear to you----
gpt
Don't touch me, you filthy creature! said his Beatrice.
human
I--I couldn't have thought it. You seemed different from other men!
gpt
This woman---- Johnson Boller floundered, and then caught Anthony's cold eye. It was an amused eye, too, and the sneer was in it; and Johnson Boller pointed at its owner suddenly and said:
human
If--if there was a woman here, blame him!
gpt
I do--a little! she said bitterly.
human
I've never cared very much for you, Mr. Fry, but--oh, why did you do that? You know as well as I know that Johnson isn't that--that sort of a man! If he wanted to come here and stay with you, couldn't you have been, just for once--_decent_?
gpt
Spare yourself the effort of that righteous rage, she said.
human
I know your saintly type of man so well, and I've begged Johnson to have nothing to do with you.
gpt
And I give you my word----
human
That he brought the woman here?
gpt
Yes!
human
And you remained! finished Johnson Boller's better half.
gpt
Where is she?
human
She isn't here now!
gpt
Isn't she, though? said she.
human
That sort doesn't leave a twenty-dollar hat behind, Mr. Fry--nor a bag worth perhaps five times as much. She had moved in quite cozily, hadn't she? If I hadn't appeared, her trunk would have been along--or perhaps it is here now? If I hadn't----
gpt
And, her whole mien altering in an instant, Mrs. Boller's hands clenched tightly and her face flamed with outraged fury.
human
I tell you, she isn't here! he began.
gpt
You see----
human
And I tell you that that's a lie! said his wife.
gpt
I'll find her, and when I _do_ find her, Johnson Boller, some one will pay on the spot for the home I've lost! Do you hear? I'll suffer--suffer for it, perhaps! _But she'll pay!_