right and wrong

"What's the matter with you, darling? The tears are ready to burst

from your eyes--I can see that quite well. Well now, speak out;

you've come to tell me something."

"No, no, I swear I haven't," he blurted out. But he was choking

with suffering, and this sickroom, into which he had suddenly

entered unawares, so worked on his feelings that he burst out

sobbing and buried his face in the bedclothes to smother the

violence of his grief. Nana understood. Rose Mignon had most