I shall remain here till he comes and tells me how I am to be taken away.' Then Mr.Bolton returned, and made his way into the house with the assistance of the gardener through the kitchen.

He found the two women sitting in the hall, each in the high-backed arm-chair, and his daughter with her baby in her arms,--a most piteous sight, the two of them thus together.

'Papa,' she said, as he came up into the hall from the kitchen, 'you are treating me badly, cruelly, unjustly.

You have no right to keep me here against my will.

I am my husband's wife, and I must go to my husband.' 'It is for the best, Hester.' 'What is wrong cannot be for the best.