And yet I did wish you could have been Jim Bellston's wife.

I did wish it! But no.' 'I, too, wished it and do still, in one sense,' she returned gently.

His moderation had won her out of her defiant mood, and she was willing to reason with him.
'You do ?' he said surprised.
'I see that in a worldly sense my conduct with Mr.Long may be considered a mistake.' 'H'm--I am glad to hear that--after my death you may see it more clearly still; and you won't have long to wait, to my reckoning.' She fell into bitter repentance, and kissed him in her anguish.

'Don't say that!' she cried.

'Tell me what to do ?' 'If you'll leave me for an hour or two I'll think.