"I don't blame you--I don't blame you," he said, in the weary cadence of one broken down with scourgings.

"But you two must walk together no more--I have been surprised--I have been cruelly deceived--Giles, don't say anything to me; but go away!" He was evidently not aware that Winterborne had known the truth before he brought it; and Giles would not stay to discuss it with him then.
When the young man had gone Melbury took his daughter in-doors to the room he used as his office.

There he sat down, and bent over the slope of the bureau, her bewildered gaze fixed upon him.
When Melbury had recovered a little he said, "You are now, as ever, Fitzpiers's wife.

I was deluded.

He has not done you ENOUGH harm.
You are still subject to his beck and call." "Then let it be, and never mind, father," she said, with dignified sorrow.