The Silent Shore. John Bloundelle-Burton

Raughton's sake; I could not see her deceived."

      "Had he not come between you and her," Philip. Smerdon asked, "but had wished to marry some other lady, would your scruples still have been the same?"

      "No! for she would not have been everything in the world to me, as this one is. And I should never have undeceived him as to the position he stood in. He might have had the title and what it brings with it, I could have given Ida something as good."

      "Your ethics are extraordinary!" Philip said, with a sneer.