A few yards of lawn against integrity and character! What a price to set upon virtue!" Not more than half an hour after the departure of Mrs.Comegys, Mrs.
Grimes called in to see Mrs.Markle.
"I hope," she said, shortly after she was seated, "that you won't say a word about what I told you a few days ago; I shouldn't have opened my lips on the subject if you hadn't asked me about it.

I only mentioned it in the first place to a friend in whom I had the greatest confidence in the world.

She has told some one, very improperly, for it was imparted to her as a secret, and in that way it has been spread abroad.

I regret it exceedingly, for I would be the last person in the world to say a word to injure any one.

I am particularly guarded in this." "If it's the truth, Mrs.Grimes, I don't see that you need be so anxious about keeping it a secret," returned Mrs.Markle.
"The truth! Do you think I would utter a word that was not true ?" "I did not mean to infer that you would.