I have something to confess--to you." Then he was defeated at last?
He had surrendered?
In another moment the words "I killed Carfax and Rupert knows that I killed him" would have left his lips--but Mrs.Craven had not heard his words.

Her face was turned away from him again and she spoke in a strange, monotonous voice as one speaks in a dream.
The words seemed to be created out of the faded sofa, the misty window, the dim shadowy bed.

She was crying--her hands were pressed to her face--the words came between her sobs.
"It is too much for me.

All these years I have kept silence.

Now I can bear it no longer.