What shall I do ?" "In what way ?" I asked.
"She offered to marry me.

I am to give her my answer to-morrow.

If I were the callous, murdering brute that everyone would have the right to believe I am, I shouldn't have hesitated.

If I hadn't been a tortured, damned soul," he cried, bringing his great fist down on the bed, "I shouldn't have come here to ask you what my answer can be.

My whole being is infected with horror." He rose and stood over the bed and, with clenched hands, gesticulated to the wall in front of him.