“Come. You’ve not killed her? What a tragic fellow you are!”

“It’s just the same; you killed her.”

“I didn’t kill her! I tell you I had no hand in it.⁠ ⁠… You are beginning to make me uneasy, though.⁠ ⁠…”

“Go on. You said, ‘if you don’t want her now, then⁠ ⁠…’ ”