\"My dear child—was THAT it? If you only knew the truth!\"
She raised her head quickly. \"Then there is a truth I don't know?\"
He kept his hand over hers. \"I meant, the truth about the old story you speak of.\"
\"But that's what I want to know, Newland—what I ought to know. I couldn't have my happiness made out of a wrong—an unfairness—to somebody else. And I want to believe that it would be the same with you. What sort of a life could we build on such foundations?\"
\"My dear child—was THAT it? If you only knew the truth!\"
She raised her head quickly. \"Then there is a truth I don't know?\"
He kept his hand over hers. \"I meant, the truth about the old story you speak of.\"
\"But that's what I want to know, Newland—what I ought to know. I couldn't have my happiness made out of a wrong—an unfairness—to somebody else. And I want to believe that it would be the same with you. What sort of a life could we build on such foundations?\"
