I will not believe your tongue against yourself.

In a moment of self-forgetfulness you spoke words which you will regret through your life, for they were inhuman, and were spoken to a defenceless girl.

After hearing them, I cannot beg your mercy for my father but you know that misfortune which strikes him falls also upon me.

You have done me the greatest wrong that man can do to woman; you owe me what reparation is in your power.' She had not thought to speak thus.

Since daylight dawned her heart had felt too numb, too dead; barely to tell him that she had no answer to his words was the purpose with which she had set out.