We are quite agreed about the money.

But another question has come up;--and though we are, I believe, agreed about that too, still there has been something a little uncomfortable.' 'Would not baby make that all right ?' 'I think if you were to ask your brother William it would be better.' 'May I not know what it is now, John ?' 'I have meant you to know always,--from the moment when it occurred,--when you should be well enough.' 'I am well now.' 'I hardly know; and yet I cannot bear to keep it secret from you.' There was something in his manner which made her feel at once that the subject to which he alluded was of the greatest importance.

Whether weak or strong, of course she must be told now.

Let the shock of the tidings be what it might, the doubt would be worse.

She felt all that, and she knew that he could feel it.