"Don't say it! It is too horrible.

Think of what you were about to say and--" "Oh, I've thought, my friend," she broke in fiercely.

"It is time for you to think of what he would have done for me.

He would have sent me to hell in his place.

Do you understand?
Do you suppose that if I had killed him, even with mercy and kindness in my heart, I could ever have escaped from a hell on earth, no matter what God's judgment may have been hereafter?
Would heaven after death affect the hell that came before ?" "Do you believe that there is life beyond the grave ?" he demanded.