"For the children's sake--yes," he answered, as in a dream.

"It was all for the children! I have killed her--murdered her--she has paid her penalty; and, poor dead soul, I will utter no word against her--the woman I have murdered! But one thing I will say: If omniscient justice sends me for this to eternal punishment, I can endure it gladly, like a man, knowing that so I have redeemed my Marian's motherless girls from a deadly tyranny." It was the only sentence in which he ever alluded to her.
I sat down by his side and watched him closely.

Mechanically, methodically, he went on with his dressing.

The more he dressed, the less could I believe it was Hugo.

I had expected to find him close-shaven; so did the police, by their printed notices.