My God, you cannot drive me away now, Josephine! It is not justice.

If you love me--it is a crime!" In the fierceness of his appeal he did not notice how his words were driving the colour from her face.

Still she answered him calmly, in her voice a strange tenderness.

Strong in her faith in him, she put her hands to his shoulders, and looked into his eyes.
"Have you forgotten ?" she asked gently.

"Have you forgotten all that you promised, and all that I told you?
There has been no change since then--no change that frees me.