It was a circumstance in my favour that she was, to all appearance, in bad spirits too.

There was something in her voice, when she asked what I wanted, which made me think--though she looks like the last person in the world to be guilty of such weakness--that she had been crying.
"I gave the best expression I could to my feelings of repentance and regret.

What I actually said to her, has slipped out of my memory; I was frightened and upset--and I am always stupid in that condition.

My attempt at reconciliation may have been clumsy enough; but she might surely have seen that I had no intention to mystify and distress her.
And yet, what else could she have imagined ?--to judge by her own actions and words.
"Her bedroom candle was on the table behind me.

She snatched it up and held it before my face, and looked at me as if I was some extraordinary object that she had never seen or heard of before! 'You are little better than a child,' she said; 'I have ten times your strength of will--what is there in you that I can't resist?
Go away from me! Be on your guard against me! I am false; I am suspicious; I am cruel.