"Yet he thinks of my life as finished; and I was thinking of it as though it were beginning all over again.

He made me feel so ashamed, so conscience-stricken." She hid her face in her hands.

"How could I tell him ?" "I think," said John, "that the time has come when he must be told.

I meant to put it off until he attained his majority; but since he has broached the subject of your leaving this house himself, he has given us the best opportunity possible.

And I also think--that the telling had better be left to me.".