He had gone too far by then to hesitate at another murder." She waited breathlessly for him to go on, her eyes on the tumbling waste of water.

He remained quiet, motionless, and she turned toward him expectantly.
"I--I think I understand now," she admitted, "how all this occurred; but why--why were you so persistent?
There--there must have been a reason more impelling than a vague suspicion ?" "There was--the most compelling impulse in the world." "You mean faith in me ?" "Even more than that; love for you.

Natalie, listen; what I have to say may sound strange, cruel even under such conditions as now surround us, but you force me to say them.

I love you, have loved you all the time, without fully realizing exactly what it meant.

There have been times when I have doubted you, when I could not wholly escape the evidence that you were also concerned personally in this fraud.