Everything now seemed possible to him.
"She is in an angel's temper," he thought. "She has divined between the
wrong and the right. She will throw the wrong over forever."
And Jane watched him up the stairs with womanly pleasure. She said to
herself, "How handsome he is! How good he is! There are none like him."
Then her face clouded, and she went into the parlor and sat down. She
knew there was a trying conversation before her, but, "John cannot
resist the argument of my beauty," she thought, "It is sure to prevail."
In a few moments she continued her reflections. "I may be weak enough to
give a promise for the future, but I will never, never, admit I was
wrong in the past. Make your stand there, Jane Hatton, for if he ever
thinks you did wrong knowingly, you will lose all your influence over
him."
During dinner and while the butler was in the room the conversation was
kept upon general subjects, and John in this interval spoke of Akers'
wish to join the Gentlemen's Club.
"I am not astonished," answered Jane.
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