How could I?
You must have kept faith in me nevertheless, or you would never be here now.

That is what seems marvellous to me--that you actually cared enough to believe." "I realize now that I have," he said gravely.

"Through it all I have kept a very large measure of faith in you." "Why should that faith have survived ?" she questioned persistently, as though doubt would not wholly leave her mind, "we had no time to really know each other; only a few hours at the most, and even then you must have deemed me a strange girl to ask of you what I did.

Surely there was never a madder story told than the one I told you, and I couldn't have proven an item of it." "Yet it has shown itself true," he interrupted.
"You actually believe then that there is another woman--a counterfeit of myself ?" "It is the only theory feasible; you have convinced me of that." "Yet this does not answer my question altogether.

You are convinced now, perhaps, because you accept my word, but how have you kept faith in me when you believed just as strongly that it was actually I who met and talked with you?
I who was playing in the game with the man Hobart ?" "Will you believe what I say ?" "Implicitly." "Perhaps it sounds like a fairy tale," he spoke frankly, his eyes seeking her own, all their surroundings forgotten in the eagerness of the moment, "but I will tell you the exact truth.