“Well,” said Richard, “and then?”
“I horsewhipped him, Dick, as you horsewhipped that man.”
“And he challenged you, and you fought, and—”
“Yes, heaven forgive me,” said Mellersh in a low voice, “I shot him dead!”
“You did this for the woman you did not love,” said Richard Linnell, as if speaking to himself. “Yes, for the woman I did not love.”
“What I did was for the woman I love with all my heart.”