"I won't let you--I won't let any innocent man--be accused and disgraced through my fault.
If you won't take me before the magistrate, draw out a declaration of your innocence on paper, and I will sign it.

Do as I tell you, Godfrey, or I'll write it to the newspapers I'll go out, and cry it in the streets!" We will not say this was the language of remorse--we will say it was the language of hysterics.

Indulgent Mr.Godfrey pacified her by taking a sheet of paper, and drawing out the declaration.

She signed it in a feverish hurry.

"Show it everywhere--don't think of ME," she said, as she gave it to him.