If a divorce is granted, it will have to be on some different allegation.' "She grasped my hand, and said, 'Oh, do you think so?
Do you think so ?'" "'I am sure of it,' was my confident answer.

'Sure of it.

Why the man would only damage his cause, and disgrace himself, by venturing into a trial with a witness like this against him.'" "'Oh, bless you for such confidently assuring words!' and the poor creature threw herself forward, and laid her face upon my bosom.

For the first time she wept, and for a season, oh how wildly! You will not wonder that my tears fell almost as fast as hers.
"'I turned in my despair to you,' she said, on growing calm, 'you whom I loved, and almost revered, in the earlier and better days of my life, and my heart tells me that I have not turned in vain.

Into the darkness that surrounded me like the pall of death, a little light has already penetrated.'" "May it shine unto the perfect day!" I answered fervently.
"And, dear husband! it will shine," said Constance, a glow of enthusiasm lighting up her face, and giving it a new beauty, "even unto the perfect day! Not the perfect day of earthly bliss--for I think the sun of that day has gone down never to rise again for her--but the perfect day of that higher life, which to many comes not, except through the gates of tribulation.".