"I can bear it.

It is your trouble that grieves me most." She stooped over him, and put her arm round his neck, which distressed Melbury still more.

"I don't mind at all what comes to me," Grace continued; "whose wife I am, or whose I am not.

I do love Giles; I cannot help that; and I have gone further with him than I should have done if I had known exactly how things were.

But I do not reproach you." "Then Giles did not tell you ?" said Melbury.
"No," said she.