The Little Lady of The Big House by Jack London Chapter 30 Page 17

he softened his reply.

“But you have not answered my question,” she insisted. “Oh, I do not mean mere flirtatious passages, bits of primrose philandering. I mean unfaithfulness and I mean it technically. In the past you have?”

“In the past,” he answered, “not much, and not for a long, long time.”

“I often wondered,” she mused.

“And I have told you I justify you in everything,” he reiterated. “And now you know where lies the justification.”

“Then by the same token I had a similar right,” she said. “Though I haven’t, Dick, I haven’t,” she hastened to add. “Well, anyway, you always did preach the single standard.”