When, therefore, at the end of his college course he left her with a few commonplace remarks, such as he would have spoken to any familiar acquaintance, her rage knew no bounds; and in the anger of the moment she resolved, sooner or later, to be revenged upon him.
Years, however, passed on, and a man whom she thought wealthy offered her his hand.

She accepted it, and found, too late, that she was wedded to poverty.

This aroused the evil of her nature to such an extent that her husband's life became one of great unhappiness, and four years after Lenora's birth he left her.

Several years later she succeeded in procuring a divorce, although she still retained his name.

Recently she had heard of his death, and about the same time, too, she heard that the wife of Ernest Hamilton was dying.