Then fell a silence between them. But by-and-by he spoke again.
"Darling," he saith, "surely thou dost not mean to do this thing?"
And she saith, like a child when 'tis naughty, and knoweth well that it
is, but likes not to say so, "What thing?"
He answered, "Thou canst not truly mean to shut me here to bring
dishonor upon me, who have loved thee better than man ever loved woman"
(for so do all men say, and truly think).