Presently he closed the catch of his bag with a snap, and said, "I have been thinking, and have made up my mind as to what is best.
If I did simply follow my inclining I would do now, at this moment, what is to be done.

But there are other things to follow, and things that are thousand times more difficult in that them we do not know.
This is simple.

She have yet no life taken, though that is of time, and to act now would be to take danger from her forever.

But then we may have to want Arthur, and how shall we tell him of this?
If you, who saw the wounds on Lucy's throat, and saw the wounds so similar on the child's at the hospital, if you, who saw the coffin empty last night and full today with a woman who have not change only to be more rose and more beautiful in a whole week, after she die, if you know of this and know of the white figure last night that brought the child to the churchyard, and yet of your own senses you did not believe, how then, can I expect Arthur, who know none of those things, to believe?
"He doubted me when I took him from her kiss when she was dying.

I know he has forgiven me because in some mistaken idea I have done things that prevent him say goodbye as he ought, and he may think that in some more mistaken idea this woman was buried alive, and that in most mistake of all we have killed her.