You will be a happier woman, Pauline, if you do it, than if you rebel against it, and try to find some other way, and put yourself in a subordinate place, or a place of dependence, and waste your life, and expose yourself to temptation.

No, no, Pauline, I cannot see you do it.

Heaven knows, I wish you had somebody else to direct you.

But it has all come upon me, and I must do the best I can.

I think any one else would advise the same, who had the same means of judging." "I will do just what you think best," I said, almost in a whisper, getting up.
"That is right," he answered, in a husky voice, rising too, and putting my cloak about my shoulders, which had fallen off.