"Then you would take her back ?" she said frenziedly.
"To my home--which is hers--yes.

To my heart--no.

She never was there." "And I," said Mrs.Horncastle, with a quivering lip,--"where do I go when you have settled this?
Back to my past again?
Back to my husbandless, childless life ?" She was turning away, but Barker caught her in his arms again.

"No!" he said, his whole face suddenly radiating with hope and youthful enthusiasm.

"No! Kitty will help us; we will tell her all.