Her vows of faith and duty she’d forgotten,
Broke the link that made them man and wife!
In a handsome furnished chamber
Stand betrayer and betrayed;
He is scornful; she is pleading;
Ah! what havoc Time has made!
She is white-faced, trembling, hopeless,
And she feels dishonor’s shame,
For the man who stands before her,
She has ruined a husband’s name;