A sad beginning on the lips of a young wife!⁠—sad in its quiet plainspoken truth. The few days we had all passed together at Blackwater Park had been many enough to show me⁠—to show anyone⁠—what her husband had married her for.

“You shall not be distressed,” she said, “by hearing how soon my disappointments and my trials began⁠—or even by knowing what they were. It is bad enough to have them on

my