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Then she thought of the danger of directing Lady Bela to his expulsion and destitution She had been sent froe to prevent his ruin, and should she now ensure it? Her return to hih words froe No, she could only save hie of her strange e, far more of the catastrophe, and leton well lately, but she had confessed her faults, and recovered her confidence that her Heavenly Father would guard her as long as she resolutely did her duty And her duty, as daughter and a wife, if indeed she was one, was surely to return, where her heart was drawing her Itnearer to him, and it would save her father

The door was still open; she wrote a feords of gratitude and explanation to Dame Wheatfield, on a piece of a torn book, wrapped a couple of guineas in it, and laid it in the basket, then kneeling again to iiveness and reconciliation, she set forth "Love is strong as death," said Mary Sedhurst's tomb She knew better what that meant than when her childish eyes first fell upon it A sense of Divine Love rapping her round with a feeling of support and trust, while the human love drew her onwards to confront all deadly possibilities in the hope of rejoining her husband, or at least of averting misfortune from her father