I came to tell you that and nothing more, George, I swear it.

But when you were kind to me and pitied me, I was mad--wild! I wanted to win you first out of your own love.

I wanted you to respond to MINE before you knew your wife was faithless.

Yet I would have saved her if I could.

Listen, George! A moment more before you speak!" Then she hurriedly told him all; the whole story of his wife's dishonor, from her entrance into the sitting-room with Van Loo, her later appeal for concealment from her husband's unexpected presence, to the use she made of that concealment to fly with her lover.