You have saved his life and you have rescued me from the most horrible ignominy.

Good-bye! and God bless you!" The hansom that bowled along eastward--at most unnecessary speed--bore two of the happiest human beings within the wide boundaries of the town.
I looked at my companion as the lights of the street shone into the cab, and was astonished at the transformation.

The pallor of her cheek had given place to a rosy pink; the hardness, the tension, the haggard self-repression that had aged her face, were all gone, and the girlish sweetness that had so bewitched me in the early days of our love had stolen back.

Even the dimple was there when the sweeping lashes lifted and her eyes met mine in a smile of infinite tenderness.

Little was said on that brief journey.