Chapter VII: Part THREE: Roma (3)

"So you are avenged! The man humiliated and degraded you. He
insulted me also, and did his best to make me resign my portfolio
and put my private life on its defence. You set out to undo the
effects of his libel and to punish him for his outrage. You've
done it! You have avenged yourself for both of us! It's all your
work! You are magnificent! And now let us draw the net closer ...
let us hold him fast ... let us go on as we have begun...."

Her sight grew dim. The letter seemed to be full of blotches. It dropped out of her helpless fingers. She sat a long time looking out on the sunlit city, and all the world grew dark and chill. Then she rose, and her face was pale and rigid.

"No, I will _not_ go on!" she thought. "I will _not_ betray him! I will _save_ him! He insulted me, he humiliated me, he was my enemy, but ... I love him! I love him!"

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