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Updated: June 14, 2025
Ledley took the girl's eager face in her hands. "Do you love him very much?" she asked rather sadly. Faith echoed the words vaguely. "Love him? Who do you mean?..." "I mean this man your husband." Faith looked away across the room, and there was a little frown between her eyes. "I don't know," she said hesitatingly. "I don't think I've ever thought about it.
He's very kind nobody has ever been so kind to me before." Mrs. Ledley gripped the girl's hand. "Faith, if you don't love him, why did you marry him?" she asked. Faith raised her brown eyes. "I told you," she said. "For you and the twins." John Shawyer looked across his paper-strewn table at Faith's mother and smiled indulgently.
I can't breathe at all sometimes." Faith watched her down the street and went back indoors. And Mrs. Ledley had not been gone more than half an hour, when there was a great knocking at the outer door. Shaking in every limb, Faith went to open it. A strange woman stood there, and down at the gate was a little crowd and a policeman.
Even the twins, in their play, frightened each other with an imaginary bogey of him, whom they called for want of a better name "The Bad Man," and sometimes Mrs. Ledley herself, tired and worried to death, would quiet them and force them to settle down to sleep by telling them that unless they did the "bad man" would come and carry them away. And now Faith had married him!
I speak of him as I have always found him, and I can truthfully say that your daughter will be perfectly safe and happy with him." But for all notice Mrs. Ledley took he might have spared himself the trouble of speech. Disappointment and sorrow had hardened her, and she could see nothing beyond the fact that her own child had married the man whom she herself most hated in all the world.
"You killed my father, and now you've killed my mother. Oh, I wish I could die, too! I wish I had never seen you." And quite suddenly she seemed to collapse, and would have fallen but for Forrester's upholding arms. He laid her down on the couch by the window, and called to the kindly neighbour. The doctor had just arrived for Mrs. Ledley, and he came at once to Faith.
Almost before Mr. Shawyer had finished speaking she rose and took up her shabby little handbag. "There is nothing more we need stay for," she said harshly. "Faith, dry your eyes and come home." But Faith could only sob on in the bitterness of her heart: "It isn't true I know it isn't true! And if it is how did I know how could I have known?" Mrs. Ledley looked at her with hard eyes.
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