"I will, please God!"
"Accept my statements and these papers, or—disprove both."
"I will disprove them."
"Meantime, take care. Leave your wife in this house until morning, but do you go elsewhere."
"What!"
Paul's anger was boiling up.
"If you have wronged Greta—"
"I have done her no wrong," said Paul, growing fiercer.
"I say, if you have wronged her, and would have it in your power to repair the injury, you must pass this night apart."
"Hugh!" cried Paul, in white rage, rising afresh to his feet, "you have tortured me and broken the heart of my mother; you have driven me from my home and from the world; you have thrust yourself between me and the woman who loves me, and now, when I am stripped of all else but that woman's love, and am going out to a strange land, a stranger and with empty hands, you would take her from me also and leave me naked!"