These sins are often unpublished, although not always undiscovered, but they are no more venial because they are suppressed by wealth and power.
Diana Von Taer was a girl who, rightly led, might have been capable of developing a noble womanhood; yet the conditions of her limited environment had induced her to countenance a most dastardly and despicable act.

It speaks well for the innate goodness of this girl that she at last actually rebelled and resolved to undo, insofar as she was able, the wrong that had been accomplished.
For four days she suffered tortures of remorse.

On the morning of the fifth day she firmly decided to act.

Regardless of who might be watching, or of any unpleasant consequences to herself, she quietly left the house, unattended, and started directly for the East Orange mansion..