But I want to understand how this thing came to pass.

Why was it that you never wrote to me to tell me the complete change in your feelings ?" "It was thought better not," Marian faltered, after a pause.
"By you ?" "No; by my husband." "And you suffered him to dictate to you in that matter.

Against your own sense of right ?" "I loved him," she answered simply.

"I have never refused to obey him in anything.

I will own that I thought it would be better to write and tell you the truth; but my husband thought otherwise.