"There's somebody else!" she cried out, fiercely.

"There's no truth in her.

If she thinks--she shall not--nor he--I will not have it so!" "For God's sake, Madelon, don't!" said Burr, not fairly comprehending what she said.

He sat down again upon the stone, and leaned his head upon his hands.

In truth he felt dazed and helpless, as if he had reached suddenly the mouth of many roads and knew not which to take.
The intricacy of the situation was fairly paralyzing to an order of mind like his, which was wont to grasp, though shrewdly enough, only the straight course of cause and effect.