You must believe me ... Truly there
wasn't. Why should I tell you a falsehood?
LOTH
So there _was_ someone else?
HELEN
[_Passionately._] Oh, please, please, please, don't ask me now.
[_She hides her face in her hands and weeps apparently without any
reason._
LOTH
But ... but Nellie! I'm not insistent; I don't want to ...
HELEN
Later ... I'll tell you later ... not now!
LOTH
As I said before, dearest.
HELEN
There was some one--I want you to know--whom I ... because ... because
among wicked people he seemed the least wicked. Oh, it is so different
now. [_Weeping against LOTH'S neck: stormily._] Ah, if I only didn't have
to leave you at all any more! Oh, if I could only go away with you right
here on the spot!
LOTH
I suppose you have a very unhappy time in the house here?
HELEN
Oh, dear!--It's just frightful--the things that happen here. It's a life
like--that ... like that of the beasts of the field--Oh, I would have
died without you. I shudder to think of it!
LOTH
I believe it would calm you, dearest, if you would tell me everything
quite openly.
HELEN
Yes, to be sure. But I don't think I can bear to. Not now, at least, not
yet.
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