I know now that I was very wrong ever to think it possible that I could be his wife.

But you can't make me think that I am wrong in this.' Then she left him, and as soon as she was gone, Madame Voss returned to hear the priest's report as to his success.
In the mean time, Michel Voss had reached Basle, arriving there some five hours before Marie's letter, and, in his ignorance of the law, had made his futile attempt to intercept the letter before it reached the hands of M.Urmand.

But he was with Urmand when the letter was delivered, and endeavoured to persuade his young friend not to open it.

But in doing this he was obliged to explain, to a certain extent, what was the nature of the letter.

He was obliged to say so much about it as to justify the unhappy lover in asserting that it would be better for them all that he should know the contents.