And after that, Agnes, what did you do ?" "I dismissed the hired nurse, and took care of poor Will until he fully recovered.

Then he resumed his business; and I went back, sick and sorrowful, to my old life.

I can never tell you how miserable I was.

The husband I loved was lost to me forever.

He had gone, believing me guilty of the worst of crimes, and I should never see him again to tell him I was innocent.