He is innocent.

He is doing this to shield me because he loves me.

But I also love him, far, far more than he loves me, and I will prove it." Fay went in imagination through a fearful and melodramatic scene, in which she revealed everything before a public tribunal.

She saw her husband's face darken against her, her lover's lighten as she saved him.
She saw her slender figure standing alone, bearing the whole shock, serene, unshaken.

The vision moved her to tears.
Was it a prophetic vision?
It was quite light now, and she crept to her husband's room.