She went into the study and fell upon her knees.

The burden had grown too heavy for her to bear alone.

She would share it with Him who knew what it meant to bear the sorrows and the sins of others.
As she rose, she heard Fido bark and whine in the yard below, and going to the window, she saw a man standing at the back door, and Fido fawning upon him.

Startled, she was about to waken her husband, when the man turned his face so that the moonlight fell upon it, and she saw Ranald.
Hastily she threw on her dressing-gown, put on her warm bedroom slippers and cloak, ran down to the door, and in another moment was standing before him, holding him by the shoulders.
"Ranald!" she cried, breathlessly, "what is it ?" "I am going away," he said, simply.

"And I was just passing by--and--" he could not go on.
"Oh, Ranald!" she cried, "I am glad you came this way.