"What is it, then?"
She spoke very slowly, in a suppressed and toneless voice.
"Will you tell me the truth?"
He watched her as though she were a saint.
"I have had a horrible thought in my heart, and it has wounded me to death."
"Tell it me, tell it me."
"That you had repented all----"
"Repented!"
"Of all the ruin I am bringing upon you; that you were beginning to think----"
He gave a deep cry.