'I don't think any good can ever come of my marriage, Miss Long,' she said to me; 'I think I must surely be punished for my falsehood to the good man who loved me so truly.

But there are some things in life that seem like fate.

They come upon us in a moment, and we have no strength to fight against them.

I believe it was my fate to love John Holbrook.

There is nothing in this world I could refuse to do for his sake.