But he had gone too far to be other than perfectly truthful now.
"Yes; I saw her on the stage," he said, with a return of his boyish earnestness; "and I learned something which I wanted you to first hear from me.

She is MARRIED,--and to Mr.Hooker, who is in the same theatrical company with her.

But I want you to think, as I honestly do, that it is the best for her.

She has married in her profession, which is a great protection and a help to her success, and she has married a man who can look lightly upon certain qualities in her that others might not be so lenient to.

His worst faults are on the surface, and will wear away in contact with the world, and he looks up to her as his superior.
I gathered this from her friend, for I did not speak with her myself; I did not go there to see her.