Though he had deceived her, he recognized only too well the value of the loyal creature before him, whom he feared he should lose.

If he could not move her at the moment when he was about to fight a duel, when could he move her?
So he approached her with the same gesture of suppliant and impassioned adoration which he employed in the early days of their marriage, and before his treason, when he had told her of his love.

No doubt that remembrance thrust itself upon Maud and disgusted her, for it was with veritable horror that she again recoiled, replying: "Be silent! That lie is the worst of all.

It pains me.

I blush for you, in seeing that you have not even the courage to acknowledge your fault.
God is my witness, I should have respected you more, had you said: 'I have ceased loving you.