If you'd seen her cry, as I have, you'd know it too.

Keep her off." He relaxed his grasp, and sank back exhausted on the pillow.

'I knew but too well what all this meant.
If I could have entertained any doubt of it, for an instant, one glance at the woman's pale face and wasted form would have sufficiently explained the real state of the case.

"You had better stand aside," said I to the poor creature.

"You can do him no good.