Unassailably innocent was a relation that could make one of the parties to it so carry herself.

If it wasn't innocent why did she haunt the churches ?--into which, given the woman he could believe he made out, she would never have come to flaunt an insolence of guilt.

She haunted them for continued help, for strength, for peace--sublime support which, if one were able to look at it so, she found from day to day.

They talked, in low easy tones and with lifted lingering looks, about the great monument and its history and its beauty--all of which, Madame de Vionnet professed, came to her most in the other, the outer view.

"We'll presently, after we go," she said, "walk round it again if you like.