Promise me that you will marry the woman you love--after my death has released you." "You distress me, and needlessly distress me," he said.

"What you are thinking of, my dear, can never happen; no, not even if--" He left the rest unsaid.
"Not even if you were free ?" she asked.
"Not even then." She looked toward the next room.

"Go in, Howel, and bring Mrs.Evelin back; I have something to say to her." The discovery that she had left the house caused no fear that she had taken to flight with the purpose of concealing herself.

There was a prospect before the poor lonely woman which might be trusted to preserve her from despair, to say the least of it.
During her brief residence in Beaucourt's house she had shown to Lady Howel a letter received from a relation, who had emigrated to New Zealand with her husband and her infant children some years since.

They had steadily prospered; they were living in comfort, and they wanted for nothing but a trustworthy governess to teach their children.