There is a high wall between us, Mr.Dexter--high as heaven and deep as--." Her feelings were getting the rein and she checked herself.

"Your own hands have built it," she resumed in a colder tone, "but your own hands, I fear, have not the strength to pull it down.

Love you I never did, and you knew it from the beginning; love you I never can.

That is a simple impossibility.

But true to you as steel to the magnet in all the externals of my life, I have been and shall continue to be, even to the end of this unhappy union.