"If I will have him! Traitor!" she said to herself, smiling through her tears.

Then she reflected that after all it would be well that she should read the letter.

There might be conditions;--though what conditions could he propose with which she would not comply?
However, she seated herself in a corner of the room and did read the letter.

As she read it, she hardly understood it all;--but she understood what she wanted to understand.

He asked her to share with him his home.