"So much the more ignominious for yourself!"
"Thus the whole story was a falsehood," she threw between to escape being hit by the affront.
"From beginning to end! But I would not cause your mother sorrow and yourself shame! Do you understand the delicacy?"
"Yes, I understand it! But I do not understand myself!"
"That I should be able to do, if you gave me a part of your past life!"
"My past life! What do you mean?"
"There exists then a past in your life! It was this I always suspected."
"You allow yourself to make insinuations...."
"As I have nothing further to do, with who you are or what you have been, so ... Now I must say farewell!" the commissioner broke off, as he saw a gunner out on the hill coming for him.
"Don't go away yet!" begged the girl and grasped his hand, looking into his eyes with drowning glances. "Do not go away, for then I do not know what I might do."