Now I would surrender gladly all ambition, all dream of worldly success, merely to fee alone with the man I love, and bring him happiness.

That--that is all I want; it is everything." "And some day it shall be yours," he declared stoutly.

"Some day when you comprehend that divorce is not always the evil that some delight to proclaim it; some day when you realize that it must be a far greater sin to wreck irretrievably your own life for a brute than to break those man-made bonds which bind you to him.

It cannot be long until you learn this, for all nature condemns so unholy an alliance.

Until then let it be the stage; only I ask you to strive for the very best it offers.