I have endeavoured to withdraw from the case, to forget, and blot everything from memory.

But something stronger than will prevented; I could not desert you; could not believe you were wilfully wrong.

You understand what I mean." "Yes," the words barely reaching him.

"It was the other girl; she undermined your faith." "That is the truth; yet how could it be, do you suppose?
My very love should have enabled me to detect the difference.

I can see now, thinking back, where the fraud was even apparent--in mood, temper, action--and yet at the time these made no such impression.