'I showed it to Robert, and, altogether we are not quite such friends since as we were before.' 'You do not mean that he believes it ?' 'No; not that.

He does not believe it.

If he did, I do not see how he and I could ever speak to each other again.

I don't think he believes it at all.

But I had to tell him the whole story, and that, perhaps, offended him.' The 'whole story' had not been told to Hester, nor did he think it necessary that it should be told.