Oh, Mr.Triplet! little did I think you were as cruel as the rest." So then this cruel monster whimpered out that he should do any folly she insisted upon.
"Good, kind Mr.Triplet!" said Mrs.Vane.

"Let me look in your face?
Yes, I see you are honest and true.

I will tell you all." Then she poured in his ear her simple tale, unadorned and touching as Judah's speech to Joseph.

She told him how she loved her husband; how he had loved her; how happy they were for the first six months; how her heart sank when he left her; how he had promised she should join him, and on that hope she lived.

"But for two months he had ceased to speak of this, and I grew heart-sick waiting for the summons that never came.