"Ah!"
"And I was in such extremity for the want of a home!"
"Had not my father and mother told you that if ever you should find yourself out of a situation, you should come to them? Why did you not take them at their word? They had always been very kind to you, and they would have given you a warm welcome and a happy home. Now, why need you have rushed into a reckless marriage for a home?"
"Oh, Fabian!" she exclaimed, impatiently, "don't pretend to talk like an idiot, for you are not one! Don't talk to me as if I were a wax doll or a wooden woman, for you know I am not one!"
"I am sure I do not know what you mean!"
"Well, then, I loved the man! There, it is out! I loved him more than I ever loved any one else in the whole world! And I was afraid of losing him!"
"And so it was because you loved him so well that you deceived him so much!"
"Didn't he deceive me much more?"
"There were a pair of you—well matched! So well, it seems a pity that you were parted!"
"Oh, how very unkind you are to me!"