At length she said-- "Dear Mrs.De Lisle! To you I have unveiled my heart more than to any other human being.

And I am constrained to draw the veil a little farther aside.

To speak will give relief; and as you are wiser, help may come.

At Saratoga, I confided to you something on that most delicate of all subjects, my feelings towards my husband.
I have yet more to say! Shall I go farther in these painful, almost forbidden revelations ?" "Say on," was the answer, "I shall listen with no vain curiosity." "I am conscious," Mrs.Dexter began, "of a new feeling towards my husband.

I call it new, for, if only the fuller development of an old impression, it has all the vividness of a new-born emotion.
Before my illness, I saw many things in him to which I could attach myself; and I was successful, in a great measure, in depressing what was repellant, and in magnifying the attractive.