It makes one's heart bleed to hear her hovering thus so near the truth, and yet never discerning its actual shape.
A minor trouble besets me, too, in the person of the young Scripture reader, whose conscience pricks him for the part he played.

Surely I am punished, if ever woman were, for a too ingenious perversion of her better judgment! April 2 .-- She is practically well.

The faint pink revives in her cheek, though it is not quite so full as heretofore.

But she still wonders what she can have done to offend 'her dear husband,' and I have been obliged to tell the smallest part of the truth--an unimportant fragment of the whole, in fact, I said that I feared for the moment he might regret the precipitancy of the act, which her illness caused, his affairs not having been quite sufficiently advanced for marriage just then, though he will doubtless come to her as soon as he has a home ready.

Meanwhile I have written to him, peremptorily, to come and relieve me in this awful dilemma.