by speaking of that said tenderly is no need tho case is very simple i think i can hardly judge about it you consult me because i am the only person to whom you confided the most painful part of your experience and i can understand your scruples did not go on immediately waiting for her to recover herself tho silence seemed to full of tho tenderness that she heard in his voice and she had courage to lift up her eyes and look at him as ho said you arc conscious of something which you feel to bo a crime toward one who is ad you think that you have all claim as a wife you shrink from taking what was his you want to keep yourself pure from by his death your feeling even you to some self punishment � some of tho self that your better will � tho will that struggled against temptation i have known something of that myself do i understand you yes � at least i want to bo good � not like what i have been said i will try to bear what you think i ought to bear i have tried to tell you the worst about myself what ought i to do r if do but yourself concerned in this question of income said i should hardly to urge you against any but i take as a guide now your feeling about mrs which seems to mo quite just i can not think that your husband s even to yourself are by any act yon have committed he voluntarily entered into your life and affected its course in what is always the most momentous way but setting that aside it was due from him in his position that he should provide for your mother and he of course understood that if this will took effect she would share the provision he had made for you she has had eight hundred a year what i thought of was to take that and leave the rest said she had been so long inwardly arguing for this as a permission that her mind could not at once take another attitude i think it is not your duty to fix a limit in that way said you would be making a painful for mrs an income from which you shut yourself out must be to her and your own course would become too difficult we agreed at that the burden on your conscience is what no one ought to be admitted to the knowledge of the future of your life will bo best your saving all others from the pain of that knowledge in my opinion you ought simply to abide by the provisions of your husband s will and let your remorse tell only on the use that you will make of your independence in uttering the last sentence took up his hat which he had laid on the floor beside him sensitive to his slightest movement felt her heart giving a great leap as if it too had a consciousness of its own and would hinder him from going in the same moment she rose from her chair unable to reflect that the movement was an acceptance of his apparent intention to leave her and of course also rose advancing a little i will do what you tell me said hurriedly but what else shall i do no other than these simple words were possible to her and even these were too much for her in a state of emotion where her proud secrecy was book tin � as the sentences f m her lips they on her like a picture of her own and not the sob which sent the large tears to her a crashing bnt imminent were visible to him and him to the utmost exertion of conscience when she had pressed her tears away he said in a gently questioning tone will probably be soon going with mrs into the in a week or ten days waited an instant her eyes toward the window as if looking at some i want to bo kind to them all � they can be hi than i can is that the best i think sa it is a duty that can not bo doubtful said d he paused a between his sentences feeling s weight of anxiety on all his word other duties will spring from it looking at your life as a debt may seem the view of things at a distance but it can not really be so what makes life dreary is the want of motive but once ix to act with that loving purpose you have in your mind there will be unexpected � will be newly opening continually coming to carry you on from day to day you will find your life growing like a plant turned her eyes on him with the look of one toward the sound of unseen waters felt the look as if she had been stretching her arms toward him from a forsaken shore his voice took an affectionate when he said this sorrow which has cut down to the root has come to you while you are so young � try to think of it not as a of your life but as a preparation for it let it be a preparation � any one bis tones would have ht he was for his own happiness see i you have been saved from the worst evils that might have come from your marriage which you feel was wrong you have had a vision of injurious selfish action � a vision of possible degradation think that a severe angel seeing you along the road of vol error grasped yoa by tho wrist and showed you the horror of the life you must avoid and it has come to you in spring time think of it as a preparation yon can you 