How easy it seemed to her to forgive a wrong that could be definitely stated at six hundred pounds! All her inward grief was that Roland had fallen--he himself.

If by a whole sacrifice of herself she could have reinstated him in the place he had forfeited, she would not have hesitated for an instant.

But no sacrifice she could make would restore him.
"Does Mrs.Sefton know what he has done ?" inquired her father.
She nodded only in reply.
"Does she believe him innocent ?" he asked.
"No," answered Phebe.
"And Madame, his mother ?" he pursued.
"No, no, no! she cannot believe him guilty," she replied; "she thinks he could free himself, if he would only come home.

She is far happier than Mrs.Sefton or me.

I would lay down my life to have him true and honest and good again, as he used to be.