“I—I don’t deserve it,” she sobbed.
“I would not,” he said, “let myself believe what you told me at first, but then I would not let myself believe what you said afterward. I hoped——”
“Oh, it was so hard for me. Can’t you understand? There was expiation in it. Don’t you think it enough?”
“I think we have both been mistaken and unhappy.”
“Oh!” she exclaimed. “Since the first I have changed. It taught me a lesson. I am different—really.”
“We’ll have everything all right now, and that is all.”
“But you are going away,” she exclaimed.
“I said I was going away unless one thing happened.”
“Yes,” she said, eagerly.
“Very well—it has happened.”