"Tell me," she went on saying, with energy, "are you sure that I am true to you in that matter, as in all others?
Though I were starving--and it is nearly so with me already--and though I loved you beyond even all heaven, as I do, I do--I would not become your wife if you doubted me in any tittle.
Say that you doubt me, and then it shall be all over." Still he did not speak.

"Rebecca Loth will be a fitter wife for you than I can be," said Nina.
"If you are not my wife, I shall never have a wife," said Trendellsohn.
In her ecstasy of delight, as she heard these words, she took up his hand and kissed it; but she dropped it again, as she remembered that she had not yet received the assurance that she needed.

"But you do believe me about this horrid paper ?" It was necessary that she should be made to go again through the fire.
In deliberate reflection he had made himself aware that such necessity still existed.

It might be that she had some inner reserve as to duty towards her father.

There was, possibly, some reason which he could not fathom why she should still keep something back from him in this matter.