Acting like a wife.

The bitter statement struck Melody like a bag of bricks, so much so that she stopped dead in her tracks and stared at him in shock. Arthur knew?! Ben had given her grief over her telling her dearly departed cousin, meanwhile his friend — the same friend who had always disregarded her — knew of her worst mistakes.

Fuck Arthur bloody fucking Pettigrew.

"Desdemona deserves better than you," she spat. "Stay in the gutters, Pettigrew, and she'll be able to find it."