A Shadowed Love by Fred M. White

Lady Stanmere pressed her hands together and gave a little cry.

-"Now I begin to understand," she said. "For some years past I have been growing rich. One mortgage after another has been paid off through Mr. Martlett. He would tell me nothing, and I was fain to take the goods that the gods had provided. I had heard that you were in London, Paul, and that you were prosperous, and I didn't know Mary was with you. I actually thought she was with her father all the time, and so you have done this?"