I could not bear to think of her holding intercourse with a light woman--a woman false to her husband." "I do not believe it.

Caroline was foolish, she was never wicked.
Listen!--If this were true, how could she be laughing with our children now?
Oh! John--think--she has no children." The deep pity passed from Ursula's heart to her husband's.

John clasped fondly the two hands that were laid on his shoulders, as, looking up in his face, the happy wife pleaded silently for one whom all the world knew was so wronged and so unhappy.
"We will wait a little before we judge.

Love, you are a better Christian than I." All afternoon they both showed more than courtesy--kindness, to this woman, at whom, as any one out of our retired household would have known, and as John did know well--all the world was already pointing the finger, on account of Mr.Gerard Vermilye.

She, on her part, with her chameleon power of seizing and sunning herself in the delight of the moment, was in a state of the highest enjoyment.