Don't look for me, for it will be quite useless, as I shall manage so that you can never trace me.

It breaks my heart to leave you, my dear dear husband, for I love you better than life, but I know I have lost your love, and I want to rid you of the burden and annoyance of a hated wife.

So, farewell forever in this world, and nay you be very happy all your days.
"ZOE." Her tears fell fast as she wrote; she had to wipe them away again and again, and the card was so blotted and blistered by them that some of the words were scarcely legible, but there was not time to write another; so she put it in the envelope and laid it on the toilet table, where it would be sure to catch his eye.
Then taking up her shawl and satchel, she sent one tearful farewell glance around the room, and stole noiselessly down-stairs and out of the house by a side door.

It caught her dress in closing, but she was unaware of that for a moment, as she stood still on the step, remembering with a sudden pang, that was more than half regret, that the deed was done beyond recall, for the dead-latch was down, and she had no key with which to effect an entrance; she must go on now, whether she would or not.
She took a step forward, and found she was last; she could neither go on nor retreat.

Oh, dreadful to be caught there and her scheme at the same time baffled and revealed! All at once she saw it in a new light.