Please do not ask me to explain any more." "I shall not--only just this.

If you actually believed in me, trusted me, as you say, why should you still claim to be Rene; and continually remind me there was negro blood in your veins; that you were a negress and a slave ?" "You think that strange?
I did trust you, Lieutenant Knox, and I trusted you more completely the longer we were together.

But--but I did not wholly understand.

You were endeavoring to rescue Rene from slavery.

I could not conceive what interest you might feel if I should confess myself Eloise.