If you saw me break the law--if you saw me stab the man I hated to the heart, you would think it must be pardoned to me." She laughed, and yet her voice was such that Anne lost her breath and caught at it again.
"Ay, I should love you, sister!" she cried.

"Even then I could not but love you.

I should know you could not strike so an innocent creature, and that to be so hated he must have been worthy of hate.

You--are not like other women, sister Clorinda; but you could not be base--for you have a great heart." Clorinda put her hand to her side and laughed again, but with less mocking in her laughter.
"What do you know of my heart, Anne ?" she said.

"Till late I did not know it beat, myself.