"You haven't contributed five cents to the running of this house or to the support of Hubert since you retired. I never asked for it.
"You came here and insulted my intelligence time after time. The lies you told me were absurd, but I let you go along without arguments because I pitied you a mind that would conceive them.
"You've never considered me for a single instant. You bought a Nash roadster for your red-haired mistress on time and gave this address because you weren't using your own name in Inwood. Then you let the payments lapse once, though you had money then, and they phoned here about it.
"Oh, yes, I've known there was a woman since then. Isn't her name Cory? I supposed it was, because you were calling yourself by that name. Yes, I found that out. That was another sweet moment. Nellie told me. Fancy how I felt when she told me that the boy she goes dancing with saw you at all hours of the day and night with a plump, red-haired girl. He was washing cars in the garage you used in Inwood and heard people call you Mr. Cory. I guess you didn't place him when you saw him there, but he placed you.
"Outside of these humiliations I didn't mind at all. Not because I'm broad-minded or generous but because you haven't meant anything to me for more years than I can remember. I let you have, with complete peace, the woman, freedom, and my Packard. However, you're not going to rob me.
"I suppose I could have told you a long while ago to stop all the fiction about Steve Flynn and your mythi-
