I told a lie about the bracelet and I followed you out of the boarding-house and I brought you here, for some other for quite a different reason." "Tell me what it was," she demanded.
"I do not know it myself," he declared solemnly.

"I really and honestly do not know it.

It is because I hoped that it might come to me while we were together, that I am here with you at this moment.

I do not like impulses which I do not understand." She laughed at him a little scornfully.
"After all," she said, "although it may not have dawned upon you yet, it is probably the same wretched reason.

You are a man and you have the poison somewhere in your blood.