"It was a dark crime; the worst crime that the world can know. Does it not lie on your conscience?"
"No; I could not hinder it."
"Oh, Isaac! Had it been anything else; anything but murder, I could have borne it. How you can bear it, and live, I cannot understand."
"Why should I make another's sin mine? No one can deplore it as I do; but it is not my place to answer for it. I do not understand you, Anna."
She did not understand. What did his words mean?
"Did you not kill Robert Hunter?"
"I kill him! You are dreaming, Anna! I was not near the spot."
"Isaac! ISAAC?"
"Child! have you been fearing that?"
"For nothing else, for nothing else could I have shunned you. Oh, Isaac! my dear husband, how could the mistake arise?"