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"Fatality!" exclaimed Alfred. And, raising his head, he strode impetuously towards Miss Meredith. "You have enjoined a confession of guilt and forbidden us to assert our innocence," he cried. "But I shall assert mine now and always, whatever happens and whoever suffers. I should not be worthy of the happiness I aim at, if I did not declare my guiltlessness in the face of facts which seem to militate against me."
"I believe you -- " she began, her hand trembling towards his. But the confiding impulse was stayed -- by what thought? by what dread? and her hand fell and her lips closed before she had completed the sentence.