I discovered a conspiracy.

You were not among the accomplices--I betrayed it.

I wanted to serve _you_ by the treachery and I plunged you into ruin." Tears gushed from her eyes; the sobs so long repressed burst forth and stifled the words on her lips.

Kolbielsky no longer wept.

He had let his hands fall from his face, and was listening to her in deep thought, in breathless suspense.