Everything that I tell you this afternoon is the truth: I shall never be able to lie to you.

It distresses me so that my artifices and my falsity should have brought trouble upon you....
Strike me again, treat me as the worst of women, but believe what I tell you; follow my counsel." The sailor persisted disdainfully in his indifferent attitude.

His hands were trembling impatiently.

He was going away.

He did not wish to hear any more....