She was obliged to look up at tall Emily.

She seemed a schoolgirl as she stood near her.

Emily was the kind of mistaken creature whose conscience, awakening to unnecessary remorses, causes its owner at once to assume all the burdens which Fate has laid upon the shoulders of others.

She began to feel like a criminal herself, irrespective of the shape of her skull.

Her own inordinate happiness and fortune had robbed this unoffending young couple.