He's making an awful mistake, but I could not move him.

He might listen to you if you tried." "But he must tell her, Jack," Ruth cried in an indignant tone.

"It is not fair to her; it is not fair to any woman,--and it is not kind.
Corinne is not a child any longer;--she's a grown woman, and a mother.
How can she help him unless she knows?
Jack, dear, look into my eyes;" her face was raised to his;--"Promise me, my darling, that no matter what happens to you you'll tell me first." And Jack promised..