She felt all a lie now: there was the good that Tom had brought her! But the gloom was friendly.

With a resolution new to herself, she went up to Godfrey and said: "If you are going to the town, let me walk with you, Cousin Godfrey.

It is getting so dark." She felt as if an evil necessity--a thing in which man must not believe--were driving her.

But the poor child was not half so deceitful inside as the words seemed to her issuing from her lips.

It was such a relief to be assured Godfrey had not seen Tom, that she felt as if she could forego the sight of Tom for evermore.