But I will tell you this.

If I did not disclose myself, it was because I distrusted you.

I wanted to know the truth, and I set myself to find it out." "Your friendship was a lie, then!" he cried, with flashing eyes.

"To you I was nothing but a suspected man to be spied upon and betrayed." She faltered and did not answer him.

Outside the nurse was knocking at the door.