You are trembling now with the fatigue and excitement of your journey.

I have seen Carry; she is well and beautiful.

Let that suffice you now." His gentle firmness composed and calmed her now, as it had often done before.

Stroking her thin hand, he said, after a pause, "Did Carry ever write to you ?" "Twice, thanking me for some presents.

They were only schoolgirl letters," she added, nervously answering the interrogation of his eyes.
"Did she ever know of your own troubles?
of your poverty, of the sacrifices you made to pay her bills, of your pawning your clothes and jewels, of your--" "No, no!" interrupted the woman quickly: "no! How could she?
I have no enemy cruel enough to tell her that." "But if she--or if Mrs.Tretherick--had heard of it?
If Carry thought you were poor, and unable to support her properly, it might influence her decision.