He was like Henry Jameson made over tall and smooth, and more, oh, much more heartless! He was gone long at a time, and always we had most to eat, and went oftener to the parks, and were happiest with him away.

When I was big enough to understand, mother told me that she had met him and cared for him when she was an inexperienced girl.

She must have been very, very young, for she was only a girl as I first remember her, and oh! so lovely, but with the saddest face I ever saw.

She said she had a good home and every luxury, and her parents adored her; but they knew life and men, and they would not allow him in their home, and so she left it with him, and he married her and tried to force them to accept him, and they would not.
At first she bore it.

Later she found him out, and appealed to them, but they were away or would not forgive, and she was a proud thing, and would not beg more after she had said she was wrong, and would they take her back.
"I grew up and we were girls together.