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"Of course this onlythe next teeks she avoidedalone withme a chance to say a word in private Madly in love, and fancying I could not live without her, I besieged her with letters, some of which she returned unopened, while on the others she wrote a few hurried lines, callingwhatinto Scotland, where our e could be celebrated in private at any ti the affair public at once That would take from the interest and romance, while, unknown to myself, there was at heart a fear ofupon those days, which seem to me now so like a dream, ent to Scotland and were married privately, for I won her to this at last And now coht of our e, Genevra, who had obtained per a friend, had procured soh, who, unused to children, perched the child upon her shoulder, and while in this condition let hi hiave herself for that sad accident, which would not have happened had she remained at her post, while to , his helplessness which he bears some of what I would had never been"

"Then you are sorry youpartly toward hiiven that she was listening to the story

Sometimes Wilford was sorry and sometimes he was not, for there was a world of pleasurable excitement connected with those months of secrecy, those private interviews, those stolen kisses, and little acts of endear of the of the olden thrill he had experienced, when for a moment he held Genevra's hand in his or wound his arht to do so But it was better not to confess this to Katy, and so he evaded the question, and continued: "My brother's failing health, as well as Hatty's, prevented the on, and when at last ent to Italy they had no idea that Genevra was my wife At Rome her beautiful face attractedere a few youngupon her as Jamie's nurse, or at uise their admiration For this I had no redress except in an open avowal of the relation in which I stood to her, and this I could not then do, for the longer it was deferred the harder I found it to acknowledge her reat cause of the jealousy which began to spring up and embitter my life