" I have inevitably made that man wretched," she thought; "but I don't want to profit by his misery.

I too am suffering, and shall suffer; I am losing what I prized above everything--I am losing my good name and my son.

I have done wrong, and so I don't want happiness, I don't want a divorce, and shall suffer from my shame and the separation from my child.

" But, however sincerely Anna had meant to suffer, she was not suffering.

Shame there was not.

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