And worse, far worse than this, he persists in declaring the event of to-day has fatally estranged you from him.

'There is an end of our married life,' he said to me, 'now she knows that I am the man who was tried at Edinburgh for poisoning my wife!"' I rose from the sofa in horror.
"Good God!" I cried, "does Eustace suppose that I doubt his innocence ?" "He denies that it is possible for you or for anybody to believe in his innocence," the Major replied.
"Help me to the door," I said.

"Where is he?
I must and will see him!" I dropped back exhausted on the sofa as I said the words.

Major Fitz-David poured out a glass of wine from the bottle on the table, and insisted on my drinking it.
"You shall see him," said the Major.

"I promise you that.