“Thought there was another—”
“Another?”
“There were reasons why I could not tell him.”
“And those reasons?”
“I cannot tell you.”
“I beg a thousand pardons—from what I know, I judge he must have thought you loved a man in the Northern army—”
“Yes.”
“And you did not?”
“No, I did. I loved him with all my heart—but—”
“But he didn’t love you?”