They were an honest, honorable, Christian couple, living fully up to the professions they made.

In their youthful days they had been different--in some respects.

Well off, handsome, and brilliant, they had both been among the most persistent and successful of pleasure-seekers.

Reviewing those days, Mrs.Prency could say that utter selfishness and self-love had been her deepest sins.

Her husband, looking back at his own life, could truthfully say the same, but the details were different.