" He shook his head, staring at her like a condemned man who beheld the face of his executioner. " Aline," he whispered, " Do you know what hell is?" " Yes." Her eyes overflowed. " Trying to exist with your heart living somewhere outside your body." " No. It's knowing that you have so little faith in my love, you would have condemned me to a lifetime of agony." His face contorted suddenly. " To something worse than death. "