Mother's heart and pride are bound up in you.

A poor, unknown girl would only add to our expenses, and not help you in the least.

What was her name?
I've never heard." John hesitated, then answered: "I called her Lily, she was so fair and pure." Anna was never in the least suspicious, but took all things for granted, so now she thought within herself, "Lilian, most likely." Then she said: "You were not engaged to her, were you ?" John started forward, and gazed into his sister's face with an expression as if he wished she would question him more closely, but Anna never dreamed of a secret, and seeing him hesitate, she said: "You need not tell me unless you like.

I only thought, maybe, you and Lily were not engaged." "We were.

Anna, I'm a wretch--a miserable wretch, and have scarcely known an hour's peace since I left her." "Was there a scene ?" Anna asked; and John replied: "Worse than that.