" She recalled another sentence in the letter.

" Our life must go on as it has done in the past....

" "That life was miserable enough in the old days; it has been awful of late.

What will it be now? And he knows all that; he knows that I can't repent that I breathe, that I love; he knows that it can lead to nothing but lying and deceit; but he wants to go on torturing me.

I know him; I know that he's at home and is happy in deceit, like a fish swimming in the water.