"And you cared enough to come and see me?" he said. "I could not help coming, Paul," was her reply. "How could I, when I knew that you were alone, and that you needed me?" "But you must go away," he said. "It's heaven to have you near, but you must go away. No one must know. Why, think of what the world would say!" "As though I care what the world says," was her reply. "As a matter of fact, I obtained admission to you without difficulty, and I do not think anyone knows who I am. You see, I have means unknown to other people. But I do not care who knows. Why should I care? I came to you because I--I---- But you know, Paul! You know!" "And you came to tell me that?" he said. "Yes, to tell you that," she replied. "Of course, I could never have told you had things been as they were; but now--I can't help it. How can I? And I've come to save you, too!" "To save me?" "Yes, to save you." "But do you know what I am accused of?" he asked, and his voice was hoarse. "Of course I know. How can I help it? But that's nothing." "But, Mary, you don't understand." "I understand everything," she said. "That is, everything that matters. You and I are all the world, Paul. For days I've been fighting; perhaps I've been a little mad; I sometimes think I have. But that's all over. I have thrown fear to the wind. I don't care what the world says. I don't care though all the gossips in the world talk about me. I came to you because you needed me, and because I love you, Paul." Her words were simple, but there was something glorious in her self-abandonment. To her the non-essentials of life did not seem to exist. She had thrown everything to the winds. The wondrousness of her womanhood had burst forth. Her heart had spoken, and she had listened to it. The ways of the world, the conventionalities of society, the gossip of tongues were no more than thistledown. The great thing in life was the love which had been born in her heart, a love which overwhelmed and submerged everything else. For that she had dared everything, and she had found her way to the cell of this man accused of murder.