Who is your husband?


IRENE.

He was a South American. A distinguished diplomatist. [Looks straight
in front of her with a stony smile.] Him I managed to drive quite out
of his mind; mad--incurably mad; inexorably mad.--It was great sport,
I can tell you--while it was in the doing. I could have laughed within
me all the time--if I had anything within me.


PROFESSOR RUBEK.

And where is he now?


IRENE.

Oh, in a churchyard somewhere or other. With a fine handsome monument
over him. And with a bullet rattling in his skull.


PROFESSOR RUBEK.

Did he kill himself?


IRENE.