“Where are you going, Mildred?”
She started at the sound of his voice and reddened as she always did when she was caught in a lie; then the flash of anger which he knew so well came into her eyes as she instinctively sought to defend herself by abuse. But she did not say the words which were on the tip of her tongue.
“Oh, I was only going to see the show. It gives me the hump sitting every night by myself.”
He did not pretend to believe her.