Placed in your position, and with your feelings towards her husband, if no personal and selfish consideration came in to restrain her, she would not hesitate at separation--nay, I fear, not even at a guilty compact with another." "You shock me!" said Mrs.Dexter.
"I speak to you my real sentiments; and in warning.

In your present state of mind, be very reserved towards her.

You are not strong enough to meet her quick intelligence, nor able to guard yourself against her subtle insinuations.

When was she here last ?" A sudden thought prompted the question.
"She left just before you came in," answered Mrs.Dexter.
"And your mind has been disturbed, not tranquillized, by her visit ?" "I am disturbed, as you see." "On what subject did she speak ?" asked Mrs.De Lisle.
"You know her usual theme ?" "Inharmonious marriages ?" "Yes." "I do not wonder that you were disturbed.

How could it be otherwise ?" "She gives utterance to many truths," said Mrs.Dexter.
"But even truth may be so spoken as to have all the evil effect of error," was promptly answered.
"Can truth ever do harm?
Is it not the mind's light?
Truth shows us the way in which we may walk safely," said Mrs.Dexter, with some earnestness of manner.
"Light, by which the eye sees, will become a minister of destruction, if the eye is inflamed.