"Outraged as my feelings were, and loathsome as my husband was to me, I spurned the base proposal, and instantly quitted my false friend.

Nor would I have seen him more, if permitted; but that secret interview with him was my first and last;--for it had been witnessed by my husband." "Ha!" exclaimed Alizon.
"Concealed behind the arras, Richard Nutter heard enough to confirm his worst suspicions," pursued the lady; "but he did not hear my justification.

He saw Edward Braddyll at my feet--he heard him urge me to fly--but he did not wait to learn if I consented, and, looking upon me as guilty, left his hiding-place to take measures for frustrating the plan, he supposed concerted between us.

That night I was made prisoner in my room, and endured treatment the most inhuman.

But a proposal was made by my husband, that promised some alleviation of my suffering.
Henceforth we were to meet only in public, when a semblance of affection was to be maintained on both sides.