voice suddenly.

She starts. "What did I say?" And it seems to her as if she had told
everything, here at the table--aloud before every one--and again she
asks, shuddering before his horrified eyes, "What did I say?"

"The dead are silent," her husband repeats very slowly.

"Yes," she answers.

And she reads in his eyes that she can no longer hide anything from him.
They look long and silently at each other. "Put the boy to bed," he says
at last. "You have something to tell me, have you not?"

"Yes--"

She knows now that within a few moments she will tell this man
everything--this man, whom she has deceived for many years.

And while she goes slowly through the door, holding her boy, she feels
her husband's eyes still resting on her, and a great peace comes over
her, the assurance that now many things would be right again.

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