You may come to regret, my dear, that you did not allow him to have his own obstinate way; that you should have dragged your own spotless purity in the mud to provide him with an alibi.

But he had an alibi all the time, my child; an unanswerable alibi which he preferred to withhold.

I wonder would you have been so ready to make a shield of your honour could you have known what you were really shielding ?" "Ned!" she cried.

"Why don't you speak?
Is he to go on in this fashion?
Of what is he accusing you?
If you were not with Samoval that night, where were you ?" "In a lady's room, as you correctly informed the court," came O'Moy's bitter mockery.

"Your only mistake was in the identity of the lady.