86/99 She and Mr.Vane lived very happily; he gave her no fresh cause for uneasiness. Six months after their return, she told him what burned in that honest heart of hers, the truth about Mrs.Woffington.The water rushed to his eyes, but his heart was now wholly his wife's; and gratitude to Mrs.Woffington for her noble conduct was the only sentiment awakened. "I know you love her, and until to-day it gave me pain; now it gives me pleasure. We owe her much." The happy, innocent life of Mabel Vane is soon summed up. Frank as the day, constant as the sun, pure as the dew, she passed the golden years preparing herself and others for a still brighter eternity. |