I have spoken no word of love to any man alive, and you know that I speak the truth.

If any one has said to me what should not be said, I have rebuked him to silence.

You know, while you accuse me, that I have done my best to honour and love you; you know well that I would die by my own hand, your loyal and true wife, rather than let my lips utter one syllable of love for any other man." Corona possessed a supreme power over her husband.

She was so true a woman that the truth blazed visibly from her clear eyes; and what she said was nothing but the truth.

She had doubted it herself for one dreadful moment; she knew it now beyond all doubting.