For her station in life she was a woman of remarkable qualities and character.

She had made an ugly, a repulsive marriage, and she was childless .-- More than this it is not seemly I should tell you." Charles Verity waited a minute or so.

He still coaxed Damaris' hand, calmly, soothingly.

And she lay very still watching him; but with half-closed eyes, striving to prevent the tears which asked so persistently to be shed.

For her heart went out to him in a new and over-flowing tenderness, in an exalted pity almost maternal.