'That tells me a very uncertain promise.' 'You looked forth to a month of happiness--meaning a month of delusion.
The delusion expires to-night.

You will awaken to see your end of it in the morning.

You have never looked beyond the month since the day of his arrival.' 'Let him not be named, I supplicate you.' 'Then you consent that another shall be sacrificed for you to enjoy your state of deception an hour longer ?' 'I am not deceived, sir.

I wish for peace, and crave it, and that is all I would have.' 'And you make her your peace-offering, whom you have engaged to serve! Too surely your eyes have been open as well as mine.

Knot by knot--I have watched you--where is it ?--you have marked the points in that silken string where the confirmation of a just suspicion was too strong for you.' 'I did it, and still I continued merry ?' She subsided from her scornfulness on an involuntary 'Ah!' that was a shudder.
'You acted Light Heart, madam, and too well to hoodwink me.