Then if you offer your hand I will take it." "Christine is dead ?" "Dead, dead." They sat down opposite each other, and James did not spare himself.
From his discovery of the note in old Starkie's possession until the death of Christine, he confessed everything.

Donald sat with downcast eyes, quite silent.

Once or twice his fierce Highland blood surged into his face, and his hand stole mechanically to the place where his dirk had once been, but the motion was as transitory as a thought.
When James had finished he sat with compressed lips for a few moments, quite unable to control his speech; but at length he slowly said, "I wish I had known all this before; it would have saved much sin and suffering.

You said that my indifference at first angered you.

I must correct this.