In all that it is possible for me to be true to my husband, I am true; and I pray always that God will give me strength to endure even unto the end.

His fears wrong me! There is not one of the scores of attractive men who crowd around me in public, who has the power, by look, or word, or action, to stir my heart with even the lightest throb of tender feeling.

I have locked the door, and the key is hidden." Mrs.De Lisle did not answer, for some time.
"Your high sense of honor, pure heart, and womanly perceptions, are guiding you right, I see!" she then remarked; "the ordeal is terrible, but you will pass through unscathed." "I trust so!" was murmured in a sad voice; "I trust to keep my garments unspotted.

Without blame, or suspicion of wrong, I cannot hope to move onward in my difficult way.

Nor can I always hope to be patient under captious treatment, and intimations of unfaithfulness.
The last will doubtless come; for when the fiend jealousy has enthroned itself in a man's heart, the most common-place actions may be construed into guilty concessions.