"Were those the words he used ?" "Betts, to tell the honest truth, he did not say much of anything.
He just said: 'I love her,' and his eyes blazed." Betty uttered a half articulate cry and ran to her room.

Her heart was throbbing.

What could she do?
She felt that if she looked once into her lover's eyes she would have no strength.

How dared she allow herself to be so weak! Yet she knew this was the end.

She could deceive him no longer.