But--" "Oh, my God, I did not mean to do this," she cried, as if knowing what he was about to say.

"I thought that if he betrayed his vileness to you--if he knew that the world would know, through you, how he had attempted to destroy a home, and how he offered my husband's freedom in exchange for--but you saw, you heard, you must understand! He would not dare to go on when he knew that all this would become public.

My husband would have been free.

But now--" "You have killed him," said Philip.
There was no sympathy in his voice.

It was the cold, passionless accusation of a man of the law, and the woman bowed her face in her hands.