"Do not look so," she said. "I am not guilty, Pitt, dear Pitt; you were my friend once. Before God, I am not guilty. I seem so. Everything is against me. And oh! at such a moment! just when all my hopes were about to be realized: just when happiness was in store for us."
"Is this true, what I see in the paper then?" Sir Pitt said--a paragraph in which had greatly surprised him.

"Do not look so," she said. "I am not guilty, dear Pitt; before God, I am not guilty, but everything is against me. And oh! just when all my hopes were about to be realized: just when happiness was in store for us."
"Is this true, then, what I see in the paper?" Sir Pitt said. He had read a paragraph there which had greatly surprised him.
