"It's all right! It takes a weight off my soul as heavy as a mountain.

I do adore you, as I said.

But every hour since I left Chicago a big, black cloud has hung over me.

I didn't feel free.
I didn't feel absolved.

I felt that my obligations to you were so heavy that when I had settled the last of the money debt I was in honour bound----" "Don't, Ruth! Forget those dreadful times, as I told you then! Think only of a happy future!" "Let me finish," said the Girl.