Innocent, I still seemed guilty.
"So, then, you do not say?
I do not ask you." "I do not deny it." "You do not care to tell me where you got it." "No," said I; "I will not tell you where I got it." "Why ?" "Because that would involve another woman." "_Involve another woman ?_ Do you think, then, that on this one day of her life, a girl likes to think of her--her lover--as involved with any other woman?
Ah, you made me begin to think.

I could not help the chill that came on my heart.

Marry you ?--I could not! I never could, now." "Yet you had decided--you had told me--it was agreed--" "I had decided on facts as I thought they were.

Other facts came before you arrived.

Sir, you do me a very great compliment." "But you loved me once," I said banally.
"I do not consider it fair to mention that now." "I never loved that other woman.