"You should have said nothing."
"Nothing with him would have been worse than what I did say. Remember that he asked me the question point-blank, and that no reply would have been equal to an affirmation. I should have confessed that his suggestion was true."
"He could not then have twitted me with your words."
"If I have erred, Lady Laura, and brought any sorrow on you, I am indeed grieved."
"It is all sorrow. There is nothing but sorrow. I have made up my mind to leave him."
"Oh, Lady Laura!"
"It is very bad,—but not so bad, I think, as the life I am now leading. He has accused me—, of what do you think? He says that you are my lover!"
"He did not say that,—in those words?"
"He said it in words which made me feel that I must part from him."
"And how did you answer him?"