"You married me--wickedly, and used me wickedly afterwards; and I loved the child." "You loved the child," he repeated after her.

"Lali," he added, "I don't deserve it, but forgive me, if you can--for the child's sake." "We had better go below," she calmly replied.

"We have both duties to do.

You will of course--appear with me--before them ?" The slight irony in the tone cut him horribly.

He offered his arm in silence.