Leah's manner had changed; she was still very pale, but she had regained outward calmness.

"I will hear you now," she said in a low voice; "but you must be more careful--if you mention that name again I must leave you.

What is the message you have for me from Miss Templeton ?" "You shall know directly; but there is one thing I must say first.

Miss Templeton and her sister are fully acquainted with your past life--your parentage, your brother's occupations, and above all, the fact that you have only recently become a widow--hardly more than six or seven weeks ago." He was standing before her as he spoke, and she tried to look at him; but some sudden sense of womanly shame made her cover her face with her hands.
"It was not my fault," she almost whispered; "I am not good, but I am not so bad as that.

Saul said it did not matter; and after that, when I began to get uncomfortable, he told me a lie." "You mean that he told you that your husband was dead ?" Leah shivered, and bowed her head in assent.