Stage Six: _________--- It became more and more inexplicable to him -- the whole situation: his wife receiving an unknown man alone.--- There on the very first page was that cursed fellow again.--- the scoundrel had asked her to become his mistress. Alone in his room! The blood rushed to Gilbert Clandon's face.--- He had forced himself upon her in this very house? But why hadn't she told him? How could she have hesitated for an instant?