"Let me go," she said.

"Anna, Anna, I love you so—I have loved you so long!"

"Let me go, let me go!"

"You are my adored one—I adore you above all things."

"Let me go. You horrify me."

He let her go.

"But what have you come here for?" he asked, sorrowfully.

"I have come to commit an infamy."

"Anna, Anna, you are killing me!"

She looked at him fixedly.