Pray grant me this much, that Bartley is a true penitent, for I have proof of it in this drawer.

I'll show it you." "No, no, please not," said Grace, in no little agitation.

"Let me take your word for that, as you have taken mine.

Oh, sir, he is nothing to me compared with what I thought you wished to say to me.

But it is I who must find the courage to say things that will wound you and me still more.