"You told me you had never spoken of love; that you were interested in him, indeed, but that you did not know--" "I know--I know now," cried Corona, losing all control as the passionate tears flowed down.

"I could not say it--it seemed so dreadful--I love him with my whole self! I can never get it out--it burns me.

O God, I am so wretched!" Padre Filippo was silent for a while.

It was a terrible case.

He could not remember in all his experience to have known one more sad to contemplate, though his business was with the sins and the sorrows of the world.