You don't know the desolation of it--and the fear! I beg your pardon for talking this way.

It's over now.

You see I am quite calm." "Can't you confide in your--other mother--" "I have no right.

She did not bear me." "It is the same as though you were her own; she feels so--" "She cannot feel so! Nor can I.If I could I would take my fears and sorrows and my sins to her.

I could take them to my own mother, for both our sakes; I cannot, to her, for my own sake alone.