It would spare--us both." "I will spare neither of us.

What has changed you ?" "I shall choose my own convenience to answer you," she replied haughtily.
"Choose it, then, and tell me when to expect your explanation." "When I send for you; not before." "Are you going to let me go away with that for my answer ?" "Perhaps." He hooked his thumbs in his girdle and looked down, considering; then, quietly raising his head: "I don't know what you have found out--what has been told you.

I have done plenty of things in my life unworthy of you, but I thought you knew that." "I know it now." "You knew it before.

I never attempted to conceal anything." A sudden blue glimmer made her eyes brilliant.

"That is a falsehood!" she said deliberately.