“Is it so serious as all that?”
“It is not serious exactly—it is merely, as it were, a continuation of the confession.”
“I thought we were through with that long ago. Are there any more horrible revelations?”
She looked at him with something like reproach in her eyes.
“If you are going to talk flippantly, I think I will postpone what I have to say until another time.”
“My dear Kate, give a man a chance. He can’t reform in a moment. I never had my flippancy checked before. Now then, I am serious again. What appalling—I mean—you see how difficult it is, Katherine—I mean, what serious subject shall we discuss?”
“Some other time.”
“No—now. I insist on it. Otherwise I will know I am unforgiven.”
“There is nothing to forgive. I merely wanted to tell you something more than you know about my own history.”
“I know more now than that man in the story.”