Why had she subjected herself to this needless pang?
"You wished it ?" he said.

"You consented to my plan ?" "Yes," she answered in the same monotonous tone of reluctant testimony.
"And it was best so, Felicita," he said tenderly; "we have done the dead man no wrong.

Remember he was alone, and had no friends to grieve over his strange absence.

If it had been otherwise there would have been a terrible sin in our act.

But it has set you free; it saves you and my mother and the children.