"How can I do that? It may be my duty to ask her for her soul's sake; you would be the last to counsel me to be silent then."
"Oh, but you do not understand! I know now—I know what is weighing on Sabina Meldreth's mind; and I have forgiven her."
"It was a wrong done to you?"
"Yes—to me."
"And to no one else?" Enid's head drooped.
"I don't know—I can't tell. I must think it over."
"Yes—think and pray," said the Rector gravely but tenderly; "and remember that truth should always prevail."
"I know—I believe it; but it would do more harm than good."
"Miss Vane, if I am indiscreet, I trust you will pardon me. If by any chance this confession has reference to the death of your father, Mr. Sydney Vane, it is your duty to make it known, at any cost to your own feelings."
The girl looked up with an expression of relief.