Don't speak! I mean to check that ruin where it ended--lest it spread to--others.

Do you understand ?" "No," he said doggedly.
She drew a steady breath.

"Then I'll tell you more if I must.

I ruined my life for ever two years ago!...

I must have been quite out of my senses--they had told me that morning, very tenderly and pitifully--what you already know.