“We have been all this time—Only your queer code of honor—Honor! Once you begin with love you have to see it through. A fire enveloped her, a fire which was strangely healing, filling her heart with warmth, blotting out the menace of the world. While the girl kept the patient from dwelling upon his misfortunes, whatever these were, he himself would have to keep the girl from brooding over hers. Nine years ago, I worked in this very house—had a kind indulgent master, whom I robbed—twice robbed, at your instigation, villain; a mistress, whom you have murdered; a companion, whose friendship I have for ever forfeited; a mother, whose heart I have well-nigh broken. Lord knew why he had any interest in an impertinent girl who would certainly have spit him with that dagger! He reached into his pocket and brought it out, examining it in the increasing light as he slowly made his way back up the terrace. She remembered abruptly that she was really living upon his money. She was unusually helpful at breakfast, and unselfish about the eggs: and then she went off to catch the train before her father’s. As to Thames, though deeply and painfully affected by the horrible occurrence that had marked his return to his old friends, he was yet able to control his feelings, and devote himself to the alleviation of the distress of the more immediate sufferers by the calamity. Later on I could scarcely have forgiven you.
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