Have I a right to forget it?
Can anything excuse a wife who does so?
Tell me what I ought to do; for if ever I am to think of my husband it must be now.
"Yet it seems to me that, for Lucia's sake, I must still, if possible, keep my secret.

I long to send her away from me, at this moment, but she has no friends at a distance from Cacouna, and besides, our separation would certainly excite notice.

I might, indeed, send her to England; my cousin, I believe, would receive her for a while; but there, you know, I cannot follow her, and a long parting is more than I have courage to think of.

So I come back to the same point from which I started.

I am almost bewildered by this new wretchedness that has fallen upon us; and I wait for your sympathy and counsel with most impatient eagerness." She had not, however, to wait long.