The plan worked perfectly; I could have met and fought either object alone, but the two combined broke me utterly.

I had no spirit of resistance left.

Yet even then--in spite of that miserable letter--I retained faith in you.
I returned home to learn the truth from your own lips, only to discover you had already gone.

I was a month learning the facts; then I discovered you had married Le Fevre in Richmond; I procured the affidavit of the officiating clergyman.

Will you deny now ?" "No," changing her manner instantly--"what is the use?
I married the man, but I was deceived, misled.