? ? ? ? 'All that has ever been in my mind, since I was married,' she said in a low, submissive, tender voice, 'I will lay bare before you. I could not live and have one reservation, knowing what I know now.'
? ? ? ? 'Nay, Annie,' said the Doctor, mildly, 'I have never doubted you, my child. There is no need; indeed there is no need, my dear.'
? ? ? ? 'There is great need,' she answered, in the same way, 'that I should open my whole heart before the soul of generosity and truth, whom, year by year, and day by day, I have loved and venerated more and more, as Heaven knows!'
? ? ? ? 'Really,' interrupted Mrs. Markleham, 'if I have any discretion at all -'
? ? ? ? ('Which you haven't, you Marplot,' observed my aunt, in an indignant whisper.)
? ? ? ? - 'I must be permitted to observe that it cannot be requisite to enter into these details.'
? ? ? ? 'No one but my husband can judge of that, mama,' said Annie without removing her eyes from his face, 'and he will hear me.
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