I would not for the world have had him suppose I disagreed with him; but I myself take another and darker interpretation of her strange words that night.

I think, that she, never a very strong-minded person, and now, grown quite desperate from terror, actually contemplated her husband's death with complacency, nay, hoped, in her secret heart, that one mad struggle between him and Tom might end the matter for ever, and leave her a free woman.

I may do her injustice, but I think I do not.

One never knows what a woman of this kind, with strong passions and a not over-strong intellect, may be driven to.

I knew her for forty years, and loved her for twenty.