"Will you please to come in ?" And so she came into our little sitting-room, and sat over there in the old green arm-chair.

I shall never forget it as long as I live.
I cannot tell you all she said in that brief half-hour, for it pains me to think of it.

She spoke as though I were her confessor, so humbly and quietly,--as though it had all happened ten years ago.

There is no stubbornness in those tiger women when once they break down.
She said she was going away; that she had done my boy a great wrong, and wished to make such reparation as she could, by telling me, at least, the truth.

She did not scruple to say that she had loved him, nor that she had done everything in her power to keep him; though he had never so much as looked at her, she added, pathetically.