But when I told my story her manner changed, and it really seemed as if she looked upon me as a suspicious person who had done something terrible.

She advocated women's rights as strongly as ever, but could not advise me to continue in my present course.

It would bring odium upon me, sure.

A woman separated from her husband was always pointed at, no matter what cause she had for the separation.

It was all wrong, she urged, that public opinion should be thus, and ere long she trusted there would be a change.