I do not know much about law matters, but it occurs to me that her first step should be the employment of counsel." "Is her father going to stand wholly aloof ?" I inquired.
"Yes, if she be resolved to defend herself in open court.

He will not sanction a course that involves so much disgrace of herself and family." "Has she shown him the letter you saw ?" "No." "Why ?" "I think she is afraid to let it go out of her hands." "She might trust it with her father, surely," said I.
"Her father has been very hard with her; and seems to take the worst for granted.

He evidently believes that it is in the power of Dewey to prove her guilty; and that if she makes any opposition to his application for a divorce, he will hold her up disgraced before the world." "This letter might open his eyes." "The letter is no defence of her; only a witness against him.

It does not prove her innocence.

If it did, then it would turn toward her a father's averted face.