But it was true, and she knew that it was true.

If Geoffrey had given her a sixpence with a hole in it, she would have valued it more than all the diamonds on earth.

Oh! what a position was hers.
And it was wrong, too.

She had no right to love the husband of another woman.

But right or wrong the fact remained: she did love him.
And the worst of it was that, as she well knew, sooner or later all this about Mr.Davies must come to the ears of her father, and then what would happen?
One thing was certain.