I have some New York money still," and she counted out, not fifty, but seventy-five dollars, thinking within herself, "she may need it more than I do." Easily swayed, Mrs.Worthington took the pen which Alice offered, but quickly put it from her, saying, with a little rational indignation, as she remembered 'Lina's heartlessness: "I won't write her a word.

She don't deserve it.

Inclose the amount, and direct it, please." Placing the money in an envelope, Alice directed it as she was bidden, without one word of Hugh, and without the slightest congratulation concerning the engagement; nothing but the money, which was to replace Ellen Tiffton's bracelet.
Claib was deputed as messenger to take it to the office, together with a hastily-written note to Mr.Liston, and then Alice sat down to consider the best means of breaking it to Hugh.

Would he prove as gentle as when delirium was upon him; or would he be greatly changed?
And what would he think of her?
Alice would not have confessed it, but this really was the most important query of all.
Alice was not well pleased with her looks that morning.

She was too pale, too languid, and the black dress she wore only increased the difficulty by adding to the marble hue of her complexion.