"Oh, you must be mad! You--you look so clever, you take it all so calmly; you are not excited, bewildered--don't you see yourself that, in consenting to ruin yourself, to go to--to prison, an innocent man----?
Oh, you have not realized----" "Have I not ?" he broke in, grimly, and with a significant glance at the revolver.

"Oh, yes; I realize it clearly enough; it was because I did that I decided to--slip out of it.

I am sorry that you prevented me.

It was good of you; it was brave of you; you meant well.

And you have succeeded.