They met; they loved--as was natural when we remember the youth and good looks of both, and--_they parted_.

This we must concede, or how could the experience have been one she could not recall without a heart-break.

They parted, and he returned home, to marry within the year, while she--I do not think she married--though I have no doubt she looks upon herself as a wife and forever bound to the man who deserted her.
Women of her kind think in this way of such matters, and act upon them too as is shown by the fact that, on following him here, she passed herself off as a woman separated from her husband.

Changing the Miss before her name to Mrs., she lived under this assumption for twelve years at her present hotel.

In all that time, so far as I can learn, she has never been visited by anyone of an appearance answering to that of her former lover; nor have I any reason to think she ever intruded herself on him, or made herself in any way obnoxious.