It is time to put her out of pain." "Does she know me so little as to think I could mean to torture her by suspense?
Besides, even she must have seen that you had secured her pardon." "Or my own punishment," Eveena answered.
"Spare me such words, Eveena, unless you mean to make me yet more ashamed of the compulsion I did employ.

I never spoke, I never thought"---- "Forgive me, dearest.

Will it vex you to find how clearly your flower-bird has learned to read your will through your eyes?
When I refused to obey, and you felt yourself obliged to compel, your first momentary thought was to threaten, your next that I should not believe you.

When you laid your hand upon my shoulder, thus, it was no gesture of anger or menace.

You thought of the only promise I must believe, and you dropped the thought as quickly as your hand.