And he is right.

He has never allowed me to know and--and I am not like you, Betty." "When you signed the paper, you did not realise that you were doing something you could never undo and that you would be forced to submit to the consequences ?" "I--I didn't realise anything but that it would kill me to live as I had been living--feeling as if they hated me.

And I was so glad and thankful that he seemed kinder.

It was as if I had been on the rack, and he turned the screws back, and I was ready to do anything--anything--if I might be taken off.

Oh, Betty! you know, don't you, that--that if he would only have been a little kind--just a little--I would have obeyed him always, and given him everything." Betty sat and looked at her, with deeply pondering eyes.