"Yes, Lottie, I fear it is so."
"I am right not to take it?"
"You are absolutely right."
"Then we will not touch it. I and mine can live without it."
"You and yours can live well and nobly without it, my most precious wife."
"Ah! there is rest and peace in my heart; and the little house, though so poor and shabby, seems very home-like. Angus, I am so tired after all this! I will go to bed."
Long after his wife had left him, the husband remained up. He had gone down on his knees, and he remained there for some hours. He had to thank God for his Charlotte, but even while he thanked a weight was heavy on his heart. Sin was very terrible to this man, and he feared that a very grievous sin had been committed. Long, long, into the night he cried to God for these sinners.