'Why have you left it so long ?' he cried.

'What do you want--now ?' "He positively had no glimmering of my feelings.

His fixed idea, like a cancerous growth, had sucked all the healthy life out of him.

Hot anger stirred within me again, but I retained control of myself this time.

I asked him how he had found out about the earlier marriage, and he told me Alice had babbled something in her delirium--enough to arouse his suspicions.