You asked me a short time ago if I loved the lady whom I was engaged to marry and whose dead body I most unexpectedly came upon in this house some time before midnight.

I answered yes, and you showed that you doubted me.

You were justified in your doubts.

I did love her once, or thought so, but my feelings changed.
A great temptation came into my life.

Carmel returned from school and--you know her beauty, her fascination.