`` Listen to me , Bessy . Do n't condemn me before you 've heard me . I 've been to blame for believing falsehoods about you , but I believe them no longer , and I 've come to ask you to forgive me . '' He told his story simply and straightforwardly . In strict justice he could not keep his mother 's name out of it , but he merely said she had been mistaken . Perhaps Bessy understood none the less . She knew what Mrs. Eastman 's reputation in Lynnfield was . `` You might have had a little more faith in me , '' she cried reproachfully . `` I know -- I know . But I was beside myself with pain and wretchedness . Oh , Bessy , wo n't you forgive me ? I love you so ! If you send me away I 'll go to the dogs . Forgive me , Bessy . '' And she , being a woman , did forgive him . `` I 've loved you from the first , Lawrence , '' she said , yielding to his kiss . Their Girl Josie When Paul Morgan , a rising young lawyer with justifiable political aspirations , married Elinor Ashton , leading woman at the Green Square Theatre , his old schoolmates and neighbours back in Spring Valley held up their hands in horror , and his father and mother up in the weather-grey Morgan homestead were crushed in the depths of humiliation . They had been too proud of Paul ... their only son and such a clever fellow ... and this was their punishment ! He had married an actress ! To Cyrus and Deborah Morgan , brought up and nourished all their lives on the strictest and straightest of old-fashioned beliefs both as regards this world and that which is to come , this was a tragedy .
They could not be brought to see it XXXXX any other light .
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