It never occurred to me to combat or to doubt the reality of the vision; he believed that he had seen it, and his conviction was enough to convince me.

He had meant, he said, to tell no one, and had given a promise to Mr.Gaskell to that effect; but I think that he could not bear to keep such a matter in his own breast, and within the first week of his return he made me his confidant.

I remember, my dear Edward, the look everything wore on that sad night when he first told me what afterwards proved so terrible a secret.

We had dined quite alone, and he had been moody and depressed all the evening.

It was a chilly night, with some fret blowing up from the sea.