How he ever came to love me--a little pale, quiet thing like me--I don't know; but he did love me--he did--it is very sweet to remember that now.

He loved me, and he married me, but under an assumed name, under the name of Darling, which I know now was not his real one." She paused a little, and Kate looked at her with sudden breathless interest.

How like this story was to another, terribly familiar.
"We were married," Agnes went on, softly and sadly, "and I was happy.
Oh, Miss Danton, I can never tell you how unspeakably happy I was for a time.

But it was not for long.

Troubles began to gather thick and fast before many months.