CHAPTER XXII.
"Alice," said Mrs.Weston, as they sat together one morning, before it was time to dress for dinner, "if you choose, I will read to you the last part of Cousin Janet's letter.

You know, my daughter, of Walter's gay course in Richmond, and it is as I always feared.

There is a tendency to recklessness and dissipation in Walter's disposition.

With what a spirit of deep thankfulness you should review the last few months of your life! I have sometimes feared I was unjust to Walter.

My regret at the attachment for him which you felt at one time, became a personal dislike, which I acknowledge, I was wrong to yield to; but I think we both acted naturally, circumstanced as we were.