“You shall proceed in your own way. You claim a right to ask me, do I mean to tell you? Do I mean to tell you what?”
“That you are a man of property?”
“No.”
“Then you married me on false pretences?”
“So be it. Next comes what you mean to say. Do you mean to say you are a woman of property?”
“No.”
“Then you married me on false pretences.”
“If you were so dull a fortune-hunter that you deceived yourself, or if you were so greedy and grasping that you were over-willing to be deceived by appearances, is it my fault, you adventurer?” the lady demands with great asperity.