But on mature consideration (I have thought of nothing
but Lillie for the last two days) I have changed my opinion. I think I
am beginning to understand what has happened, but I beg you to remember
that I alone am responsible for what I am going to say. I am only
dealing with suppositions, nothing more.
Lillie has not broken her marriage vows. Any suspicion of betrayal is
impossible, having regard to her upright and loyal nature. If to you,
and to everybody else, she appeared to be perfectly happy in her married
life, it was because she really was so. I implore you to believe this.
Lillie, who never told even a conventional falsehood, who watched over
her children like an old-fashioned mother, careful of what they read and
what plays they saw, how could she have carried on, unknown to you and
to them, an intrigue with another man? Impossible, impossible, dear
Professor! I do not say that your ears played you false as to the words
she spoke, but you must have put a wrong interpretation upon them.
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