6/21 I've asked myself whether it would be possible for you to find yourself in such a position as mine; and how you would act, how you would speak. You're my ideal of truth and rightness, Bertha; I've often enough told you that." Bertha moved uncomfortably, her eyes averted. I hope you haven't been thinking it was some fault of _his_ ?" "I couldn't help thinking that." "Oh! Put that out of your mind at once. The fault is altogether mine. It's I who am behaving badly; so badly that I feel hot with shame now that I come to tell you. |