This has struck me serious.

If ever I get back I shall be a better woman--a more earnest woman--in the future." "And I a better man.

I suppose it is just for that that trouble comes to us.

Look how it has brought out the virtues of all our friends.
Take poor Mr.Stuart, for example.

Should we ever have known what a noble, constant man he was?
And see Belmont and his wife, in front of us there, going fearlessly forward, hand in hand, thinking only of each other.