I shall have no wife." Diane caught that note of dull endurance in his voice, and seized upon it.

He still cared! "Hugh, you've listened to Catherine till you've lost all sense of truth." She spoke gently, pleadingly.

"Don't do this thing.

We've been guilty of no sin that needs atonement.

It isn't wrong to love." But he was implacable.
"No," he returned.