"An eye for an eye, ma'am.

Oh, certainly.

That is the law.

An eye for an eye, no doubt." This formula she will repeat a dozen times a day--ay, a dozen dozen times, till the wonder is that she also should not be mad.
The reader need not fear that he is to be asked to loiter within the precincts of an asylum for the insane.

Of this abode of wretchedness no word more shall be said; but the story shall be told of the lady who dwelt there,--the story of her life till madness placed her within those walls.