That she had but made on a more conspicuous scale, the same sacrifice as myself to the god of Wealth and Position, was in my eyes at that time, no palliation of her conduct.

I was a man none too good or exalted at the best; she, a woman, should have been superior to the temptations that overpowered me.

That she was not, seemed to drag all womanhood a little nearer the dust; fashionable womanhood I ought to say, for somehow even at that early day her conduct did not seem to affect the vivid image of Luttra standing upon my threshold, shorn of her joy but burning with a devotion I did not comprehend, and saying, "'I loved you.

Ah, and I do yet, my husband, love you so that I leave you.

When the day comes--if the day comes--you need or feel you need the sustainment of my presence or the devotion of my heart, no power on earth save that of death itself, shall keep me from your side.' "Yes, with the fading away of other faces and other forms, that face and that form now began to usurp the chief place in my thoughts.