My father and mother may be looked down upon by the world as a very poor kind of people, but they have always been very good to me.

I will not have you blame them except as you blame me with them.

They thought that in this way I could be rescued from the hard and questionable life which they were living, and in which they did not wish me to grow up.

If the plan succeeded, and you were deceived and took me here, thinking me the true Ida, they believed that I would be secured a life of happiness and luxury.

They had seen, too, how you were in love with the true Ida, and made no question that you would love me and marry me.
"It was that more than all, Paul, that decided me to do it.