“Ah!”
“But as they are not in your nature we need not consider them.”
“But how do you know?”
“I do know.”
“But—what?”
“I know what you might do, or may have done. I know just as well what you have never done and could never do.”
“But I have done some horrible things, Seymour.”
“They are past. Let us forget them.”
“But—horrible things come back in one’s life! They are like revenants. After years—they rise up.”
“What is the matter, Adela? Do tell me.”