But it was cowardly on my part thus to tremble before him.

My great mistake has been to allow the matter to go so far; for my duty was to have trusted only in you, to have insisted upon seeing you personally, and to have acted with you." There was a short silence.

Angelique sat erect for an instant, as if she had received a blow, and her expression grew cold and hard, and her forehead was cut by an angry wrinkle.
"So we have both of us been deceived.

Falsehoods have been told in order to separate us from each other.

Notwithstanding our mutual love, we have been tortured to such a degree that they have almost killed us both.
Very well, then! It is abominable, and it frees us from the promises we made.