She stood, as it were, outside of herself, and saw that her speech was madness; yet she went on with it.
"I told you the truth brutally on purpose.

I was so stung because you would not see what was so visible had you only the mind to see.

I wanted to hurt you.

I am a bad, bad woman, I suppose.

There were you and she in the room talking together in the darkness; there was I alone upon the terrace.