"I'm not going to remind you of your sin against your wife. That you would think nothing of. What have you to say for your sin against her?"
"My sin against her was not caring for her. You needn't call me to account for it."
"I am to believe that you did not care for her?"
"I never cared for her. I took everything from her and gave her nothing, and I left her like a brute."
"Why did you go to her if you did not care for her?"
"I went to her because I cared for my wife. And I left her for the same reason. And she knew it."
"Do you really expect me to believe that you left me for another woman, because you cared for me?"
"For no earthly reason except that."
"You deceived me—you lived in deliberate sin with this woman for three years—and now you come back to me, because, I suppose, you are tired of her—and I am to believe that you cared for me!"
"I don't expect you to believe it. It's the fact, all the same. I wouldn't have left you if I hadn't been hopelessly in love with you. You mayn't know it, and I don't suppose you'd understand it if you did, but that was the trouble. It was the trouble all along, ever since I married you. I know I've been unfaithful to you, but I never loved any one but you. Consider how we've been living, you and I, for the last six years—can you say that I put another woman in your place?"