So the lie failed.

Now they tell you, and seem to show you, that he is faithless.

May not all this have been some part played for a purpose by the woman ?" "It takes two to play such parts, Betty.

If you had seen----" "If I had seen, _I_ should have known whether it was but a part or love made in good earnest; but you are too innocent to judge.

What said the marquis all this while, and the priest ?" "Little or nothing, only smiled at each other, and at length, when it grew dark and we could see no more, asked me if I did not think that it was time to go--me! whom they had kept there all that while to be the witness of my own shame." "Yes, they kept you there--did they not ?--and brought you there just at the right time--did they not ?--and shut me out of the tower so that I might not be with you--oh! and all the rest.