She had burnt his.

But she had not burnt the letters of Mr.Morsfield; and she cared nothing for that man.

Assuredly she merited the stigma branding women as crack-brained.

Yet she was not one of the fools; she could govern a household, and she liked work, she had the capacity for devotedness.

So, therefore, she was a woman perverted by her position, and she shook her bonds in revolt from marriage.