It was my own fault for marrying you so heedlessly.

But I loved you so--!" And then his voice broke suddenly with a sob, and he stretched out his arms wildly.
"My God!" he cried, "I am punished! The agony of it is that I love you still, with all my soul--even though I saw them with my own eyes--your lover and--your child!" Here Zara gave a stifled shriek, and, as he strode from the room not daring to look at her for fear of breaking his resolution, she rose unsteadily to her feet and tried to call him.

But she gasped and no words would come.

Then she fell back unconscious in the chair.
He did not turn round, and soon he was in the motor and gliding away as though the hounds of hell were after him, as, indeed, they were, from the mad pain in his heart.
And when Zara came to herself it was half an hour later, and he was many miles away.
She sat up and found Jake licking her hands.
Then remembrance came back.

He was gone--and he loved her even though he thought her--that! She started to her feet.