But she persisted in her story, that she had--another lover.

Oh, Paul, I am sure it is not true.

I hated her because--because--you loved her so, and I mistrusted her, but I cannot believe that she was quite as base as that." "No, no, child," he said in a toneless, miserable voice; "she was not so base as that.

Tell me more of what she said." "She said very little else.

But Merlin asked her whether she had denounced you so as to get you out of the way.