Cassandra promised him before God, he says, that if he would repent, she would marry him. And when she was here she used to talk about the way those women live. How her own mother has worked and aged! Why, she is not yet sixty. You have seen how they live in their wretched little cabins, Doctor; that’s what Frale would doom her to. He never in life will understand her. He’ll grow old like his father, — a passionate, ignorant, untamed animal, and worse, for he would be drunken as well. He’s been drunk twice since he came down here. James, you know they think it’s perfectly right to get drunk Saturday afternoon.”

“Yes, it seems a terrible waste; but if she has children, she will be able to do more for them than her mother has done for her, and they will have her inheritance; so her