Ye'll remember afterwards that it was your hardness drove me." She moved to depart, then checked, and faced him again.

It was she now who was on her defence, her voice quivering with indignation.
"You take that tone! You dare to take that tone!" she cried, astounding him by her sudden vehemence.

"You have the effrontery to upbraid me because I will not take your hands when I know how they are stained; when I know you for a murderer and worse ?" He stared at her open-mouthed.
"A murderer--I ?" he said at last.
"Must I name your victims?
Did you not murder Levasseur ?" "Levasseur ?" He smiled a little.

"So they've told you about that!" "Do you deny it ?" "I killed him, it is true.

I can remember killing another man in circumstances that were very similar.