Perhaps it must be confessed that in the unreasonableness of the woman, the author has intended to bear more harshly on the sex than it deserves.

But a true woman will forgive him, because of the truth of Lady Castlewood's heart.

Her husband had been killed in a duel, and there were circumstances which had induced her at the moment to quarrel with Harry and to be unjust to him.

He had been ill, and had gone away to the wars, and then she had learned the truth, and had been wretched enough.

But when he comes back, and she sees him, by chance at first, as the anthem is being sung in the cathedral choir, as she is saying her prayers, her heart flows over with tenderness to him.