He ought to have known that I couldn't accept him, on the spur of the moment, that way; and when he had come back, after going away in disgrace, before he had done anything to justify himself.

I couldn't have kept my self-respect; and as it was I had the greatest difficulty; and he ought to have seen it.

Of course he said afterwards that he didn't see it.

But when--when I found out that SHE had been in Weimar, and all that time, while I had been suffering in Carlsbad and Wurzburg, and longing to see him--let him know how I was really feeling--he was flirting with that--that girl, then I saw that he was a false nature, and I determined to put an end to everything.

And that is what I did; and I shall always think I--did right--and--" The rest was lost in Agatha's handkerchief, which she put up to her eyes.