You did to me the greatest wrong a man can do a woman, then cruelly deserted me, and now you would chide me for respecting another more than I do you." "Not respecting him, Adah, no, not for respecting him.

You should do that.

He's worthier than I; but, oh, Adah, Lily, wife, mother of my boy, do you love Irving Stanley ?" He was sobbing bitterly, and the words came between the sobs, while he tried to clutch her dress.

Staggering backward against the wooden beam, Adah leaned there for support, while she replied: "You would not understand if I should tell you the terrible struggle it was for me to be thrown each day in the society of one as noble, as good as Irving Stanley, and not come at last to feel for him as a poor governess ought never to feel for the handsome, gifted brother of her employer.

Oh, George, I prayed against it so much, prayed to be kept from the sin, if it were a sin, to have Irving Stanley mingled with every thought.