But at least he had never guessed at the actual repulsion with which at times she had been filled.

She was thankful to think that he could never know that now, thankful that now she had come into her womanhood it was all her own.

She valued her freedom almost extravagantly since it had been given back to her.

And she also valued the fact that in no worldly sense was she the richer for having been Ralph Dacre's wife.

He had had no private means, and she was thankful that this was so.