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.