The very next morning I was compelled by restlessness to give up my idea of remaining there.

When I wrote to you I had no thought of leaving the island.' How pleasant it was to be able to speak with unshadowed veracity! Walter all but smiled, and, when the other made no reply, he went on in a voice almost of pleading: 'You believe this?
Is your mind so set against me that you will accuse me of any cowardice rather than credit my word ?' A change came over Gilbert's face.

It was wrung with pain, and as he looked up it seemed to cost him a horrible effort to speak.
'If,' he said, 'in a moment of temptation you did her the greatest wrong that a man can do to a woman, you would perhaps say and do anything rather than confess it.' Walter tried to meet those eyes steadily, but failed.

He broke forth into passionate self-defence.
'That means you think the worst of me that one man can think of another.

You are wrong You are basely wrong! You speak of a moment of temptation.