I could not stay to fight you then.
I left you to brand me as you pleased in your mind." "I had already branded you." "Later, I saw that you had.

Perhaps then I did not wonder.

In September--almost a year from that Christmas Eve--I yet did not know.
Then, in Edinburgh, I came upon Mr.Wotherspoon.He told me....

I had no wicked intent toward Elspeth Barrow--none according to my canon, which has been that of the natural man.

We met by accident.