But her excitement was so great that though the words were written very clearly, she could not bring her mind to understand them.

'Treachery! Ruin! Married to you! What is it all?
Do you read it to me;--every word of it.' Then he did read it; every word of it.

'She says that she will marry the other man.

How can she marry him when she says that she is--your wife ?' 'Just so, my pet.

But you see what she says.