He never returned.

I have always felt that we were as truly one as though the church had solemnized and the law had legalized our union.

I promised that I would wait for him." "And you--you have kept that promise?
You have been true to that memory ?" Brian Kent asked, wonderingly.
"I have been true to him, Brian;--all the years of my life I have been true to him." Brian Kent bowed his head, reverently.
Rising, the old gentlewoman went close to him, and put her hands on his shoulders.

"Brian, dear, I have told you my secret because I thought it might help you to know.

Oh, my boy--my boy,--don't--don't let anything--don't let anyone--kill your faith in womanhood! No matter how bitter your experience, you can believe, now, that there are women who can be faithful and true.