So he had mistaken Sarah for Eli? Samuel still refused to accept this fact, roaring, "I asked you why you're here? Who told you to come back?"

Sarah sobbed, continuing to cry, "Mrs. Nelson asked me to return her ring. When I came back, I saw you drunk downstairs. I tried to help you to bed, but you thought I was Mrs. Nelson."

Samuel turned away, unable to look at Sarah in his bed anymore. Fighting the suffocating pain in his chest, he ordered her to get up. "Put on ...