Somehow it had lost its beauty, it looked weak and soul-less, without power any longer over Ethel's future.

"Poor Amy.
Oh, how much you missed." And she added, "I'll never be like that." For an instant she let her mind dwell on the past, on how Susette's coming must have been--unwelcomed by her mother.
"But this one will be welcomed! Our love is so--so different! This will bind us, oh, so close! It's done now, you're tied for life!" She had never felt it so before.

The months of her marriage had been so exciting, and even in the long summer's thinking her love had seemed always a little unreal.

"But this is real--inside of me!" Her fancy went careering ahead, with joy and wonder, a thrill of dismay.

"I was so free, with my life to choose! I could have been almost anything! But now it is settled.