Yet, in her new relation, purity and truth were shrined in a cold exterior.

It were not possible to be otherwise.

She did not love her husband in any thing like the degree she was capable of loving.

It was not in him to find the deep places of her heart.

But true to him she could be, and true to him it was her purpose to remain.
Taking all the antecedents of this case, we will not wonder, when told that quite from the beginning of so inharmonious a union, Dexter found himself disappointed in his bride.