Now--" "Tell me--just one word--I will not believe anybody's word except your own.

Caroline, are you--still innocent ?" Lady Caroline shrank from her touch.

"Don't hold me so.

You may have one standard of virtue, I another." "Still, tell me." "And if I did, you, an 'honourable English matron'-- was not that your husband's word ?--would turn from me, most likely." "She will not," John said.

"She has been happy, and you most miserable." "Oh, most miserable." That bitter groan went to both their hearts, Ursula leaned over her--herself almost in tears.