No sophistries of French philosophy on your part, no cruelty on your husband's, can abrogate the one law, which if you disown it as God's, is still man's--being necessary for the peace, honour, and safety of society." "What law ?" "THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY." People do not often utter this plain Bible word.

It made Ursula start, even when spoken solemnly by her own husband.

It tore from the self-convicted woman all the sentimental disguises with which the world then hid, and still hides, its corruptions.

Her sin arose and stared her blackly in the face--AS SIN.

She cowered before it.
"Am I--THAT?
And William will know it.