Why?
Tell me why, my darling, my dear love!' She threw back her head and gazed into his eyes.

'I will tell you,' she said.

'I would leave you because I am the daughter of Ephraim Shine, the man whose memory is hated everywhere; the man whose crimes you and yours can never forget; the man who sent your innocent brother to prison, who whitened your mother's hair with grief, who left you to die in the waters of the mine--who was a triple thief and a hypocrite.

He was my father and I loved him.

I cannot do anything else but love him now, but you must hate and loathe him.