An immense gush of pity for him flooded her heart.

If she had known this story before, she would have understood, and instead of thinking him unkind and misanthropic she would have tried to be a better daughter to him.

The new-found knowledge illuminated all the past and seemed to draw them closely together.
"_Mother_ would have believed in you, Dad," she ventured to say.
"Thank God she never knew! She was spared that at any rate.

I raged against Providence when I lost her, but afterwards I felt she had been 'taken away from the evil to come.' Her relations thought me guilty.

I went to them and explained, but they practically told me I was lying.
When I went abroad I never sent them my address.