Tell her I was not worthy to be her sister; tell her anything you like; but the doctor--oh, Alice, do you think he'll come, just for a minute, before he goes ?" It was not a pleasant thing for the doctor to meet 'Lina now face to face, for of course she wished to reproach him for his treachery.

But she did not--she thought only of herself; and when at last, urged on by Anna and Alice, he entered into her presence, she only offered him her hand at first, without a single word.

He was shocked to find her so sick, for a few hours had worked a marvelous change in her, and he shrank from the bright eyes fixed so eagerly on his face.
"Oh Dr.Richards," she began at last, "if I loved you less it would not be so hard to tell you what I must.

I did love you, bad as I am, but I meant to deceive you.

It was for me that Adah kept silence at Terrace Hill.