She came into the room with her complexion heightened by exercise; she kissed him, and said with her pretty smile: "Have you been lonely without me ?" Who would have supposed that the torment of distrust, and the dread of desertion, were busy at this woman's heart?
He placed a chair for her, and seating himself by her side asked if she felt tired.

Every attention that she could wish for from the man whom she loved, offered with every appearance of sincerity on the surface! She met him halfway, and answered as if her mind was quite at ease.
"No, dear, I'm not tired--but I'm glad to get back." "Did you find your old landlady still alive ?" "Yes.

But oh, so altered, poor thing! The struggle for life must have been a hard one, since I last saw her." "She didn't recognize you, of course ?" "Oh! no.

She looked at me and my dress in great surprise and said her lodgings were hardly fit for a young lady like me.

It was too sad.