She will control even her anxieties and reveal nothing while she writes her cheerful letters, as soon as she is allowed to write them." "Lord Walderhurst will be told nothing ?" "Nothing until his recovery is complete.

Now that she has made a clean breast of everything to me and given herself into my hands, I believe that she finds a sentimental pleasure in the thought of keeping her secret until he returns.

I will confess to you, Mary, that I think that she has read of and tenderly sympathised with heroines who have done the like before.

She does not pose to herself as a heroine, but she dwells affectionately on ingenuous mental pictures of what Lord Walderhurst will say.

It is just as well that it should be so.