Of course you told me! What more natural than for you to blazon forth that prepared and unsolicited statement to PREVENT accusation.

Yet, as I said before, even that wretched attempt to cover up your tracks was not enough.

I still had to find that overwhelming, impelling motive necessary to affect a man like you.

That motive I found in the strongest of all impulses--Love, I suppose you would call it," he added bitterly, "that night you called! You had brought the most conclusive proofs of it on your sleeve." "But--" I almost screamed.
"Silence!" he thundered.

"I know what you would say.