He does not know how true I am to him, and that kills me." "I will tell him everything." "No, Ruth; tell him nothing.

If he cannot find it out without being told, telling will do no good.

If you thought a person was a thief, would you change your mind because the person told you he was honest?
He must find it out for himself if he is ever to know it." When Ruth was gone, Nina knew that she had been comforted.

To have spoken about her lover was in itself much; and to have spoken about him as she had done seemed almost to have brought him once more near to her.

Ruth had declared that Anton was sad, and had suggested to Nina that the cause of his sadness was the same as her own.