But faithless wholly, did I try this not?

XXXI.

So, soon, to draw her thoughts out, baiting mine,

Some slur I dropt, suggested by a church:

It touch’d a theatre. “Extremes,” I said,

“Have met.”

“Extremes have met,” she said, “before!

I take your meaning. Elbert has disclosed—

Not what I am, but what I seem to be

To those who will not view me as I am.