You can't help yourself now. You have cast black suspicions on my wife. {Hubbard} All right. She--Mrs. Chalmers visited Knox in his rooms last night. {Mrs. Starkweather} (_Bursting out._) Oh! Oh! My Madge! It is a lie! A lie! (_Kicks violently with her legs._) (_Connie soothes her._) {Chalmers} You've got to prove that, Hubbard. If you have made any mistake it will go hard with you. {Hubbard} (_Indicating Margaret._) Look at her. Ask her. (_Chalmers looks at Margaret with growing suspicion._) {Margaret} Linda was with me. And Tommy. I had to see Mr. Knox on a very important matter. I went there in the machine. I took Linda and Tommy right into Mr. Knox's room. {Chalmers} (_Relieved._) Ah, that puts a different complexion on it. {Hubbard} That is not all. Mrs. Chalmers sent the maid and the boy down to the machine and remained. {Margaret} (_Quickly._) But only for a moment {Hubbard} Much longer--much, much longer. I know how long I was kicking my heels and waiting. {Margaret} (_Desperately._) I say it was but for a moment--a short moment. {Starkweather} (_Abruptly, to Hubbard._) Where were you? {Hubbard} In Knox's bedroom. The fool had forgotten all about me. He was too delighted with his--er--new visitor. {Starkweather} You said you saw. {Hubbard} The bedroom door was ajar. I opened it. {Starkweather} What did you see? {Margaret} (_Appealing to Hubbard._) Have you no mercy? I say it was only a moment. (_Hubbard shrugs his shoulders._) {Starkweather} We'll settle the length of that moment Tommy is here, and so is the maid. Connie, Margaret's maid is here, isn't she? (_Connie does not answer._) Answer me! {Connie} Yes. {Starkweather} {Dobleman}. Ring for a maid and tell her to fetch Tommy and Mrs. Chalmer's maid. (_Dobleman goes to desk and pushes button once._) {Margaret} No! Not Tommy! {Starkweather} (_Looking shrewdly at Margaret, to Dobleman._) Mrs. Chalmer's maid will do. (_A knock is heard at left rear. Dobleman opens door and talks to maid. Closes door._) {Starkweather} Lock it. (_Dobleman locks door._) {Chalmers} (_Coming over to Margaret._) So you, the immaculate one, have been playing fast and loose. {Margaret} You have no right to talk to me that way, Tom-- {Chalmers} I am your husband. {Margaret} You have long since ceased being that. {Chalmers} What do you mean? {Margaret} I mean just what you have in mind about yourself right now. {Chalmers} Madge, you are merely conjecturing. You know nothing against me. {Margaret} I know everything--and without evidence, if you please. I am a woman. It is your atmosphere. Faugh! You have exhaled it for years. I doubt not that proofs, as you would call them, could have been easily obtained. But I was not interested. I had my boy. When he came, I gave you up, Tom. You did not seem to need me any more. {Chalmers} And so, in retaliation, you took up with this fellow Knox. {Margaret}