her uncle te s odious and their neighbours apparent of them had an unaccountable date for ner in their relief from money difficulties if the invitations had been accepted she would have to invite her mamma and the rest whom she had seen nothing of for several days and she now put on her bonnet to go and inquire what had become of them all suddenly feeling as if there were a conspiracy to leave book � sunset and sunrise her in with a husband disposed to offend it was after the dinner hour and she found her father and mother seated together alone in the drawing room they greeted her with sad looks saying well my dear and no more she had never seen her father look so downcast and herself near him she said � is there anything the matter papa he did not answer but mrs said oh my dear have you heard nothing it won t be long before it reaches you is it anything about said turning pale the idea of trouble immediately connected itself with what had been unaccountable to her in him oh my dear yes to think of your marrying into this trouble debt was bad enough but this will oe worse stay stay said mr have you heard nothing about your uncle v no papa said the poor thing feeling as if trouble were not anything she had before experienced but some invisible power with an iron grasp that made her soul within her her father told her everything saying at the end if s better for you to know my dear i think must leave the town things have one against him i he couldn t help it i don t accuse of any harm said mr he had always be fore been disposed to the utmost fault with the shock to was terrible it seemed to her that no lot could be so hard as hers � to have married a man who had become the centre of infamous suspicions in many cases it is inevitable that the shame is felt to be the worst part of crime and it would have required a great deal of reflection such as had never entered into s life for her in these moments to feel that her trouble was less than if her husband had been certainly known to have done something criminal ah the shame seemed to be there and she had innocently married this man with the belief that he and his family were a to her she showed her usual to her parents and only said that if had done as she ed he would have left long ago she bears it beyond an said her mother when she was gone ah thank god said mr who was much broken down but went home with a sense of justified towards her husband what had he really done � how had he really acted she did not know why had he not told her everything he did not speak to her on the subject and of course she could not speak to him it came into her once that she would ask her fa � to let her go home a ain but dwelling on that prospect made it seem utter to her a married woman gone back to live with her parents � life seemed to have no meaning for her in such a position e could not contemplate in it n the next two days observed a change in her and believed that she had heard the bs news would she speak to him about it or would she go for ever in the silence which seemed to imply that she believed him guilty we must remember that he was in a morbid state of mind in which almost all contact was pain certainly in this case had equal reason to complain of reserve and want of confidence on his part but in the bitterness of his soul he excused himself � was he not justified in from the task of telling her since now she knew the truth she had no impulse to speak to him but a deeper lying consciousness that he was in fault made him restless and the silence between them became intolerable to him it was as if they were both adrift on one piece of wreck and looked away from each other he thought i am a fool haven t i i up expecting anything i married care not help and that evening he said � have you heard anything that you yes she answered laying down her work which she had been carrying on with a languid semi consciousness most unlike her usual self what have you heard everything i suppose papa told me that people think me disgraced yes said faintly beginning to again was silence thought if she has any trust in me � any notion of what i am she oi ht to speak now and say that she does not believe i have deserved disgrace but on her side went on moving her fingers languidly whatever was to be said on the subject she expected to come from what did she know and if he were innocent of any why did he not do something to clear himself this silence of hers brought a new rush of to that bitter mood in which had been saying to himself that nobody believed in him � even had not come forward he had be un to question her with the intent that their conversation should the chill fog which had between them but he felt his resolution checked bv resentment even this trouble like the rest she seemed to regard as if it were hers alone he was always to her a being apart doing what she objected to he started from his chair with an angry and thrusting his hands in his pockets walked up and down 