How are we to avert it ?" "By parting them." "Then act as I suggested the other day.

It's the only way, Winnie, depend upon it--the only way to secure our own safety." "And what would the world say of me, her stepmother, if it were known that I had done such a thing ?" "You've never yet cared for what the world said.

Why should you care now?
Besides, it never will be known.

I should be the only person in the secret, and for my own sake it isn't likely that I'd give you away.

Is it?
You've trusted me before," he added; "why not again ?" "It would break my husband's heart," she declared in a low, intense voice.