Her principal terror was, not so much the sin itself, but that the world might hear of it.
"You see, Mrs.Grey, I am come again," said she, very earnestly.

"In spite of every thing, I have come back to advise with you.

I am ready to overlook everything, to try and conceal everything.

Maria and I have been turning over in our minds all sorts of plans to get you away till this has blown over--call it going to the seaside, to the country with Arthur--any thing, in short, just that you may leave Avonsbridge." "I leave Avonsbridge?
Why ?" "Yon know why.

When you had a lover before your marriage, of whom you did not tell your husband or his friends--when this gentleman afterward meets you, writes to you--I saw the letter--" "You saw the letter!" There was no hope.