Helen found it difficult not to be affected by the convincing tone.
“I have made more mistakes than you know of.”
“In your work, do you mean?”
“Yes.”
“But this is only the first draft; you can easily correct them.”
“They could be more easily corrected in the book than where they are.”
“I don’t understand.”
“The mistakes are in me!” Armstrong cried. “I am no humanist; I am an impostor!”
“Jack! Jack!” Helen was really alarmed. “You are putting too much of a tax upon yourself. Remember, you are not well yet.”
“I am worse than an impostor,” Armstrong continued, excitedly, refusing to be checked: “I am a traitor to the very cause I set myself to further! I have been false in my duty to it, as I have been in my obligations to you.”