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'It said, I suppose, all you had to say'

'No, indeed I did have much more to say That was the third letter I wrote Now you shall see the other two I wrote three, and had to choose which I would send you I fancy that yours to me was easier written than either one of mine You had no doubts, you know I had ether But you may see them all now There is one Youit, I was detero' Then she handed him the sheet of paper which contained the threat of the horsewhip

'I alad you did not send that,' he said

'I ed yourin it that seems to you to be unreasonable? Speak out and tellof you, not ofsaid there which the usage to which I have been subjected does not justify?'

'You ask me questions which I cannot answer I do not think that under any provocation a woman should use a horsewhip'

'It is certainly entlemen,--who amuse themselves,--that women should have that opinion But, uponas there areto the men But when a wo without turning upon those who ill-use her? Shall a woht for her own skin? What is the good of being --feminine, as you call it? Have you asked yourself that? That men may be attracted, I should say But if a woe of her assumed weakness, shall she not throw it off? If she be treated as prey, shall she not fight as a beast of prey? Oh, no;--it is so unfeht of that The charm of womanly weakness presented itself to my mind in a soft moment,--and then I wrote this other letter You may as well see them all' And so she handed him the scrap which had been written at Lowestoft, and he read that also

He could hardly finish it, because of the tears which filled his eyes But, having mastered its contents, he came across the roo 'I have not sent it, you know,' she said 'I only show it you that you may see how my mind has been at work'