“I thought you'd gotten over your whoring when you left him, Catherine, but it seems you only postponed it."

Bones' face turned to stone, and he answered her even before I could snap out an indignant response.

"Don't you ever speak to her that way again." There was pure warning in the whip of his words. "You can call me any name you like and more, but I will not stand by while you slander her out of your own ignorance.”