'Scandal! It is for this you have been driving!' 'I have tried to tell you how I feel,' he replied.

'I have told you that I love you--love you in vain--a bitter thing for a husband; I have laid myself open that I might speak without offence.

And now that I have begun, I will go on and finish.' 'I demand it,' she said.

'What is this about ?' Otto flushed crimson.

'I have to say what I would fain not,' he answered.