There was a kind of mournful pleasure in seeing the dear face once more." "She must have been surprised to see you." "She was, no doubt, surprised--unpleasantly, perhaps; but she received me very kindly, and was perfectly frank upon every subject except her husband.

She would tell me nothing about him--neither his position in the world, nor his profession, if he has one, as I suppose he has.

She owned he was not rich, and that is about all she said of him.

Poor girl, I do not think she is happy!" "What ground have you for such an idea ?" "Her face, which told me a great deal more than her words.

Her beauty is very much faded since the summer evening when I first saw her in Lidford Church.