You thought I was another woman." John's wisdom stood by him nobly.

He knew he could neither explain successfully nor beg forgiveness.

He simply said: "I cannot remain and look you in the face.

If I dare make any request, it is that despite all you have heard from my lips you will still believe that I love you, and that in all my life I have never loved any one so dearly.

There is no other woman for me." "You doubtless spoke the same false words to the other two score women," said Dorothy.