But as it concerns not myself alone I will ask that it be kept a secret between us two.

Not to be told to any other; not even your wife!' 'I will hold your secret sacred.

Even from my wife; the first secret I shall have ever kept from her.' 'First, then, let me say, and this is what I know will rejoice you, that I am not leaving home and country because of any crime I have committed; not from any offence against God or man, or law.

Thank God! I am free from such.

I have always tried to live uprightly.