"John, I never got your letter."
"No!"
"John, you doubted me."
"I did, I confess it; I confess it bitterly. But not now, not after one glance into your eyes."
"John, what did you say in that letter?"
"That I held you to your sacred promise; that I refused to give you up."
"But—but—you did not know my true reason. You did not know why—why——"
"Yes, I knew all. Before I wrote that letter I went to Somerset house. I read your grandfather's will."
"Ah! did you—did you indeed? Oh! what a dreadful time I have gone through."