Michael Sunlocks lifted his face and said, "Why did you not tell me this long ago, Greeba, and not now when it is dragged from you?"
She did not answer him, for to be met with such a question after a plea so abject, stung her to the quick. "Do you not believe I've told you the truth?" she asked.
"God knows; I know not what to believe," he answered.
"Do you rather trust my brothers, who have deceived you?" she said.
"So, heaven help me! has my wife, whom I have loved so dear."
At that she drew herself up. "Michael," she said, "what lie have these men told you? Don't keep it from me. What have I done?"
"Married me, while loving him," he answered. "That's enough for me, God pity me!"
"Do you believe that?" she said.
"Your concealments, your deceptions, your subterfuges all prove it," he said. "Oh, it is killing me, for it is the truth."
"So you believe that?" she said.