We are one in all the essentials of marriage, Mrs.Denison.Why are we thus sternly held apart ?" "It is one of the necessities of our fallen nature," Mrs.Denison replied, in her calm, yet earnest voice, "that spiritual virtues can only have birth in pain.

We rise into the higher regions of heavenly purity only after the fires have tried us.

Some natures, as you know, demand a severer discipline than others.

Yours, I think, is one of them.

Jessie's is another.