Morales had believed, when he entered his closet that day, that a dense cloud was folded round him, sapping the very elements of life; but though he still felt as if he had received some heavy physical blow, the darkness had fled from his spirit, and light dawned anew for both, beneath the heavenly rays of openness and Truth.
"And Arthur ?" Marie said, as that long commune came to a close; and she looked up with the fearless gaze of integrity in her husband's face.

"Thou wilt forgive him, Ferdinand?
he knew not what he said." "Trust me, beloved one.

I pity and forgive him.

He shall learn to love me, despite himself." Great was the astonishment and terrible the disappointment of Don Luis Garcia at the visible failure of one portion of his nefarious schemes.
Though seldom in Don Ferdinand's actual presence, he was perfectly aware that instead of diminishing, Morales' confidence in and love for his wife had both increased, and that Marie was happier and more quietly at rest than she had been since her marriage.

But though baffled, Garcia was not foiled.