While she is still innocent--" His wife eyed him with a look of unutterable contempt.

He submitted to it, but not in silence.
"A man doesn't lie, Catherine, who makes such a confession as I am making now.

Miss Westerfield offers the one atonement in her power, while she is still innocent of having wronged you--except in thought." "Is that all ?" Mrs.Linley asked.
"It rests with you," he replied, "to say if there is any other sacrifice of herself which will be more acceptable to you." "Let me understand first what the sacrifice means.

Does Miss Westerfield make any conditions ?" "She has positively forbidden me to make conditions." "And goes out into the world, helpless and friendless ?" "Yes." Even under the terrible trial that wrung her, the nobility of the woman's nature spoke in her next words.
"Give me time to think of what you have said," she pleaded.

"I have led a happy life; I am not used to suffer as I am suffering now." They were both silent.