It was strange to find herself passing his house on such an errand. She seemed suddenly to see her action as he would see it; and the fact of his own connection with it, the fact that, to attain her end, she must trade on his name, and profit by a secret of his past, chilled her blood with shame. What a long way she had travelled since the day of their first talk together! Even then her feet had been set in the path she was now following; even then she had resisted the hand he had held out.
