"There is another way.

You have made me forget it; but before you came I saw it clearly.

I can't think it out as I did then; but I know it is there.

There is another way"-- and her voice faltered--"to do what is right, and let everything else go." Charles saw for the first time, with a sudden frightful contraction of the heart, that her will was as strong as his own.

He had staked everything on one desperate appeal to her feelings; he had carried the outworks, and now another adversary--her conscience--rose up between him and her.
"A marriage without love is a sin," he said, quietly.