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"Wait a minute When he told me, I will own I did not realize

all the awfulness of your position I saw nothing but him, and

that the fa to you, I see it, as a woony, and I can't tell you how sorry I a, I fully realize your sufferings, only there is

one thing I don't know; I don't knowI don't kno much love

there is still in your heart for him That you knohether

there is enough for you to be able to forgive hi, but Anna cut her short, kissing her

hand once more

"I know more of the world than you do," she said "I kno

of you with

her That never happened Such men are unfaithful, but their

home and wife are sacred to them Somehow or other these women

are still looked on with conte for their family They draw a sort of line that

can't be crossed between them and their families I don't

understand it, but it is so"

"Yes, but he has kissed her"

"Dolly, hush, darling I saw Stiva when he was in love with you