And do not let my children grow up with hard thoughts of their father.

It will be a painful task to you." "Yes," she said.

"Oh, Roland, we ought not to have done this thing!" "Yet you chose," he replied.
"Yes; and I should choose it again, though I hate the falsehood," she exclaimed vehemently.

"I cannot endure shame.

But all our future life will be founded on a lie." "Let the blame be mine, not yours," he said; "it was my plan, and there is no going back from it now.