Tell me what I am utterly unable to decide for myself alone: What is my duty, the duty of a woman situated as I am ?" He held her hands still, crushing them within his own, yet the color, the hope which had brightened his face, faded.

A moment the two sat silent, their eyes meeting, searching the depths.
"Beth," he asked at last, "is this right ?" "Is what right ?" "That you should cast such a burden upon me.

I told you I could not be your conscience.

All my desire, all my hope tends in one direction.
That which to you appears wrong, to me seems the only right course.

My heart responded eagerly to every word of renunciation spoken out there in your indignation.