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What if she did? What if she made him a confession? Hoould he stand

then? He would have to bring a divorce!

A divorce! Thus close, the as paralyzing, so utterly at variance

with all the principles that had hitherto guided his life Its lack of

cooing to

the side of his vessel, and, with his own hands throwing over theof his property with his own

hand seemed uncanny to Soames It would injure hiet rid of the house at Robin Hill, on which he had spent

so much money, so much anticipation--and at a sacrifice And she! She

would no longer belong to him, not even in name! She would pass out of

his life, and he--he should never see her again!

He traversed in the cab the length of a street without getting beyond

the thought that he should never see her again!

But perhaps there was nothing to confess, even now very likely there was

nothing to confess Was it wise to push things so far? Was it wise to

put hiht have to eat his words? The