But I shall always be ashamed because I knew him, because he thought that I--oh, if I were a man, I should be glad that I had killed him, for the sake of all honest women!" He remained silent.

His look was not upon her, he seemed lost in a dream; but his face was fixed in trouble.
She misunderstood his silence.

"You had the courage, the impulse to--to do it," she said keenly; "you have not the courage to justify it.

I will not have it so.
"I will tell the truth to all the world.

I will not shrink I shrank yesterday because I was afraid of the world; to-day I will face it, I will--" She stopped suddenly, and another look flashed into her face.