'Your husband must copy it exactly, without altering anything,' she stipulated.

'On that condition, I grant your request.' Emily was not only thankful--she was really touched.

Agnes hurried the little woman out of the room.

'Don't give me time to repent and take it back again,' she said.

Emily vanished.
'Is the tie that once bound us completely broken?
Am I as entirely parted from the good and evil fortune of his life as if we had never met and never loved ?' Agnes looked at the clock on the mantel-piece.
Not ten minutes since, those serious questions had been on her lips.
It almost shocked her to think of the common-place manner in which they had already met with their reply.