"I think it only the more, and I don't wonder that you find a woman to believe it.

But what have you done but deceive me?
It was just my belief in your intelligence that reassured me.

When Miss Vivian refused me a second time, and I left Baden, it was at first with a sort of relief.

But there came back a better feeling--a feeling faint compared to this feeling of to-day, but strong enough to make me uneasy and to fill me with regret.

To quench my regret, I kept thinking of what you had said, and it kept me quiet.