23/32 "Has he escaped ?" "He cannot escape us, madam." "No, no, I did not mean my husband. Sir Henry? "But this is nothing--nothing! It is my mind and soul that he has tortured and defiled. I could endure it all, ill-usage, solitude, a life of deception, everything, as long as I could still cling to the hope that I had his love, but now I know that in this also I have been his dupe and his tool." She broke into passionate sobbing as she spoke. "Tell us then where we shall find him. |