"I did this not only for your sake, and because you were the tool of a designing and unscrupulous man, but also for your sisters' sake.

When I left her yesterday it was impossible to know how far I had succeeded in my purpose." Cedric looked up when Malcolm said this.
"This morning Miss Jacobi sent me a note, and I went to her at once.
She was in deep distress, and showed me her brother's telegram.

To my astonishment, she told me that she fully intended to break off her engagement, and entrusted this letter to my care;" and here he stopped and handed it to Cedric, and withdrew to another part of the room while he read it.
A long time afterwards Malcolm read that letter.
"My darling, I cannot marry you," Leah wrote.

"I am going to set you free.

I pray God that I may never see your dear face again, for this is the hardest piece of work I have ever done in my life.