Not much conversation passed between him and his wife; for the mind of each was too heavily burdened with thoughts of its own to leave room for an interchange of ideas.

But the manner of Cara towards her husband was subdued, and even tender; and he felt it as the grateful earth feels the strength-giving impression of the gentle rain.

Leaving the past, to the future both their thoughts turned; and both strengthened themselves in good resolutions.
Cara resolved to be a better wife--to be more considerate and more yielding towards her husband.

And Ellis resolved to abandon, at every sacrifice the vicious habits he had indulged,--habits which, within a day or two, had led him aside from the path of safety, and conducted him to the brink of a precipice, from which he now started back with a thrilling sense of fear.
More than twenty times during that evening was Cara on the eve of telling her husband about the carpet.

But she shrank from the confession.
"In the morning I will do it," was her final conclusion; thus putting off the evil hour.