And I have all reason in the world to be ashamed.

I can only say this in defence: the woman had affected me deeply--so deeply that I was close to weeping.

Then you came on the scene,--you know what you did,--and the sorrow for her bred an indignation against you, and--well, I worked myself into a nervous condition such as I had never experienced in my life.

It was hysteria, I suppose.

Anyway, I was not myself." "We were neither of us ourselves." "Now you are untrue.