“Hereward, you say, is still at the Court of ——?”
“Yes.”
“And yet you have never heard from him?”
“No.”
“He does not know that you are living?”
“No.”
“Well, neither did I until an accident revealed your continued existence to me. I will tell you all about that by and by. Now I tell you, Lilith, that he must learn the truth.”
“Oh, no! no! Do not bring me in any way to his notice,” she pleaded, clasping her hands and fixing her eyes upon him in the earnestness of her entreaty.
“But why not, now that you are able to clear up the mystery that separated you?” demanded Zuniga, in astonishment.
“Oh, because he does not love me. He never loved me! He told me so with his own lips,” moaned Lilith, wringing her hands.