See what I risk for you.
"Yours devotedly and for ever."_ There was no signature, but well enough Dorothea knew the handwriting.
A wave of anger swelled in her heart--the first she had ever felt towards him.

He had behaved selfishly.

"See what I risk for you!"-- but to what risk was he exposing her! He was breaking their covenant too; demanding that which he must know her conscience abhorred.

She had not believed he could understand her so poorly, held her so cheap.
Cheap indeed, since he had risked her secret in Polly's hand! She turned the paper over, noting its creases.

Suddenly--"You have opened and read this!" she said.
Polly admitted it with downcast eyes.