That you should ever forgive at heart cannot be.

That punishment should not follow so terrible a crime, even I cannot desire.

But for _my_ sake, do not give her up to the doom she has deserved.

Do you know" (as I was silent) "what that doom is ?" "Death, I suppose." "Yes!" she said, shuddering, "but death with torture--death on the vivisection-table.

Will you, whatever the danger--_can_ you, give up to such a fate, to such hands, one whom your hand has caressed, whose head has rested on your heart ?" "It needs not that, Eveena," I answered; "enough that she is woman.