"And you went to Canada with the other man."
"No, I didn't go to Canada—not at all. That was all a make-up, just to stop talk. We stopped a good bit where we were after we were married."
"Where was it?"
"We stopped abroad—all the time till my husband died. And then I went to Norfolk."
"And all these years you've been deceivin' me. And I thought you true, Molly. Whatever your faults might be, I've judged you true."
"I couldn't help it," she said. "There was reasons why I couldn't say more; and there's reasons now."
Morris was staring about the room.
"There's the picture I painted and gev to you, Molly," he remarked. "I gev it you when I went off to Canada—thinkin' as you'd come after me."
"I didn't know my own mind then."
"And they told you I was drowned. Who said it?"