Tell me how it all came about--how they ever lured you into that place." "It was easy enough, Ellen; I wasn't conscious when they took me there.
The story is very short.

You remember that day when you left the Grange, how happy I was, looking forward to my husband's return, and thinking of the good news I had to tell him.

We were to be rich, and our lives free and peaceful henceforward; and I had seen him suffer so much for the want of money.

It was the morning after you left when the post brought me a letter from my father--a letter with the Malsham post-mark.

I had seen him in town, as you know, and was scarcely surprised that he should write to me.