” I pleaded; “it is for your sake that I speak. If your husband heard you----”
“It would not surprise him if he did hear me.”
She made that strange reply with a weary calmness and coldness. The change in her manner, when she gave the answer, startled me almost as much as the answer itself.
“Not surprise him!” I repeated. “Laura! remember what you are saying—you frighten me!”
“It is true,” she said; “it is what I wanted to tell you to-day,
” I pleaded; “it is for your sake that I speak. If your husband heard you----”
“It would not surprise him if he did hear me.”
She made that strange reply with a weary calmness and coldness. The change in her manner, when she gave the answer, startled me almost as much as the answer itself.
“Not surprise him!” I repeated. “Laura! remember what you are saying—you frighten me!”
“It is true,” she said; “it is what I wanted to tell you to-day,
