"Maybe this is an emergency." It was absolutely not an emergency, but that was beside the point. Zacharias walked further into the flat, looking around for something out of sort here. "Are you trying to push me out?"
"Marietta, do you have another gentleman caller? Surely as the father of our child I should be told as much." He was quite proud of himself for saying those words with some credibility. Zacharias needed to prove that she didn't hold all of the cards on this one. When the news was confirmed she had given him the burden of choice and he was surely going to have the burden loom over her head if he could.