Then she slowly went on: "There was a divorce, of course; the matter was hushed up as much as possible; Captain Hunsden went back to his regiment a broken-hearted man.
"Two years after he sailed for England, but not to remain.

How he wandered over the world, his daughter accompanying him, from that time until he returned to Hunsden Hall, every one knows.

But during all that time he never heard one word of or from his lost wife.
"She remained with Thorndyke--half starved, brutally beaten, horribly ill-used--taunted from the first by him, and hated at the last.

But she clung to him through all, as women do cling; she had given up the whole world for his sake; she must bear his abuse to the end.

And she did, heroically.
"He died--stabbed in a drunken brawl--died with her kneeling by his side, and his last word an oath.