'You, Sisily!' he said--'what has brought you here at this hour ?' I told him I had come to hear the truth from his own lips.

I asked him to tell me everything.

He gave me one of his black looks, but it did not frighten me--nothing would have frightened me then.

He seemed to consider for a moment, and then said that perhaps, after all, it would be better if he told me himself.
"So he told me--told me in half-a-dozen sentences which seemed to burn into my brain.

I sat still for a while, almost stunned, I think; then, as the full force of what he had told me came home to my mind, I did something I had never done before.