It was for this last reason, for that matter, that I felt the necessity of communicating these memoirs to her.

I can still see her fright, her despair, her bewilderment, when she had learned and understood it.

She was on the point of breaking the engagement.

What a lucky thing it would have been for both of us!" Posdnicheff was silent for a moment, and then resumed:-- "After all, no! It is better that things happened as they did, better!" he cried.

"It was a good thing for me.