And then I bethought me how much I had loved him once upon a time, and the weapon sank down.

I flung it from me." The girl ceased to speak and covered her face with both her hands.

It was a long time before she took them away again.
At last she sprang up quickly, and turning her pale face towards Henrietta, said in a hard, dry voice: "It will be the last time, your ladyship.

I am weak because I am a woman, folks would say.

But they shall know that that is not true.