Indeed, as he had talked she had scarcely felt any resentment toward him, for she was sure that though his error had been great, his contrition and remorse had been greater, and she thought of him only as Maude's father and the man who had always been kind to her.

And she made him believe at last that she forgave him for Maude's sake, if not for his own.
'Had my life been a wretched one because of your conduct,' she said, 'I might have found it harder to forgive you, but it has not.

I have not been the daughter of Tracy Park, it is true, but I have been the petted child of the cottage, and I would rather have lived with Harold in poverty all these years than to have been rich without him.

And do you know, I think it was noble in you to tell me, when you might have kept it to yourself.' 'No, no.

I couldn't have done that much longer,' he exclaimed, energetically, as he began to walk up and down the room.