"She always liked you; she always thought you a wonder.

But she would be distressed if she heard me telling you.

She thought it would not be safe for you to know.

I must tell him now, dearest, darlingest," she suddenly called out boldly to the little self she had been so quaintly fond of because there was no other to love her.

"I must tell him everything now, for you are no longer your own.