But I have been thinking a good deal lately." "You have been thinking, Elizabeth ?" he repeated, "what have you been thinking ?" and his expression changed in a moment to the dark, stern one she knew so well.

He had made his advance; further he would not go.
"Am I right, or am I not ?" he asked, sharply.
"No, Salve, you are not right," she replied, turning to him now with a look that seemed fired by all she had endured; "you are not right.

It is yourself, and yourself only, you have loved all along; and when you took me as your wife, you merely took another to help you.

There were two about it then, and even so it was not enough.

No! no!" she cried, striking out her hand with an emphatic gesture in the bitterness of her feeling--"if you had loved me as I have loved you, we would not be standing before one another as we are this day!" He was taken aback for a moment by this unexpected outburst, but replied in a cold hard voice, while his eyes never moved from her face, "I thank you, Elizabeth, for having at last told me your thoughts, though it comes a little late.