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136 “Adam!”

“Lovely innocence! It is too much! Go away!”

“I will not stand this any longer!” she cried. “I will go away; but not till I have told you why I have acted as I have.”

“It is too late for that! I do not care to hear!”

“Then you shall hear!” she replied. “You shall know that it is because I have believed you capable of speaking to me as you have just spoken; believed you at heart unsparing and unjust. You think I asked you to do what you have done? No! I asked you whether you would be willing to do it; and when you said you would not, I saw then—by your voice, your eyes, your whole face and manner—that you would. Saw it as plainly at that moment, in spite of your denial, as I see it now—the cruelty in you, the unfaithfulness, the willingness to betray. It