"I have thought it all over.

I cannot tell and yet, how can I live and not tell ?" "I suppose," said Alice Mendon, "that always when people do wrong, they have to endure punishment.

I suppose that is your punishment, Margaret.

You have always loved yourself and now you will have to despise yourself.

I don't see any way out of it." "I am not the only woman who does such things," said Margaret, and there was defiance in her tone.
"No doubt, you have company," said Alice.