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"Yes, you can listen to me It seems that my wife is not very well?"

"Why?"

"Your face, ht which takes your colour away? Now I ahastly!"

"What?"

"Your laugh"

"There's reason for ghastliness Eustacia, you have held my happiness in the hollow of your hand, and like a devil you have dashed it down!"

She started back fro-table, retreated a few steps frohten h "Is it worth while? I am undefended, and alone"

"How extraordinary!"

"What do you h you knoell enough I mean that it is extraordinary that you should be alone in my absence Tell me, nohere is he ith you on the afternoon of the thirty-first of August? Under the bed? Up the chiht fabric of her nightdress throughout "I do not remember dates so exactly," she said "I cannot recollect that anybody ith ht, his voice growing louder and harsher, "was the day you shut the door against my mother and killed her O, it is too much--too bad!" He leant over the footpiece of the bedstead for a few ain--"Tellup to her and seizing her by the loose folds of her sleeve

The superstratu and defiant at heart had been passed through, and the mettlesome substance of the woman was reached The red blood inundated her face, previously so pale

"What are you going to do?" she said in a low voice, regarding hi on so; but it would be a pity to tear o he drew her closer to him "Tell me the particulars of-- whisper; "or--I'll--I'll--"

"Cly to me that I dare not bear? But before you strike h it should kill me, as it probably will But perhaps you do not wishmay be all you mean?"