But in vain did he say the most cutting things, and coupled them with bitter taunts, for she had reached a pitch of exaltation far above his sarcasms and abuse.
"I am not lying," answered she frigidly.

"What should I gain by it?
What more have I to gain in this world?
You desire to learn the truth; here it is then: It was with my knowledge and permission that George was here to-night.

He came because I had asked him to do so, and I left the gate in the garden wall open, so as to facilitate his entrance.

He had not been more than five minutes in the room, when you arrived, and he had never been there before.

It would have been easy for me to have left you; but as I bear your name, I could not dishonor it.