Be generous, leave him to me.

" Up to this point she wrote rapidly and naturally, but the appeal to his generosity, a quality she did not recognize in him, and the necessity of winding up the letter with something touching, pulled her up.

" Of my fault and my remorse I cannot speak, because..." She stopped again, finding no connection in her ideas.

" No," she said to herself, "there's no need of anything," and tearing up the letter, she wrote it again, leaving out the allusion to generosity, and sealed it up.