"Sit down! I have to speak to you," he said, putting the portfolio under his arm, and squeezing it so tightly with his elbow that his shoulder stood up.

Amazed and intimidated, she gazed at him in silence.

"I told you that I would not allow you to receive your lover in this house.

" "I had to see him to..." She stopped, not finding a reason.

"I do not enter into the details of why a woman wants to see her lover.