“It has come at last,” said Mrs Hallam, as she lay with closed eyes.
“It has come, dear?” said Julia, starting up, and gazing at her mother with dilating eyes.
“Yes, my child, our path. I could not see it before in the wild confusion of my thoughts, but I know our duty now. You will help me, dear?”
“Help you, mother? Oh, yes. What shall I do?”
Mrs Hallam did not answer for a few minutes, and then said softly:
“You know all, you say. It has come to you with as great a shock as to me; but I can see our duty now. Julia, he must love us dearly; we are his wife and child, and we must lead him back to the better way.”