Tell me if yours is right." "Yes, it is very nice," he said absently, drinking some.

Then rising suddenly, he put the cup on the mantleshelf, and said to me, "Send Ann away, I want to talk to you." I told Ann I would ring for her when I wanted her, and sat down by the lamp again, with many apprehensions.
"You asked me if anything had happened, Pauline, didn't you ?" he said.
"No," I answered.

"But I was sure that something had, from the way you looked when you came in." "It is something that--that changes things very much for you, Pauline," he resumed, with an effort, "and makes all our arrangements unnecessary--that is, unless you choose." I looked amazed and frightened, and he went on.
"I made a discovery last night in the library.

The will is found, Pauline." I started to my feet, with my hands pressed against my heart, waiting breathlessly for his next word.
"Everything is left to you--and I have come to tell you, you are free--if you desire to be." "Oh, thank God! Thank God!" I cried; then covering my face with my hands, sank back into my seat, and burst into tears.
He turned from me and walked to the other end of the room; each of us lived much in that little time.
For myself, I had accepted my bondage so meekly, so dutifully, that I did not know the weight it had been upon me till it was suddenly taken off.

I did not think of him--I could only think, there was no next Wednesday, and I could stay where I was.