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LYLE gave a faint horrified cry. The papers dropped from her hand and lay upon the floor. She sat looking at them with a sort of terror. The room seemed chill and full of shadows. The fire had died down while she had been occupied in reading, and the candles on the mantel-shelf burned low in their sockets.
She looked about her with a sudden dull wonder, asking dumbly why this horror had been thrust upon her; why, suddenly, all peace and joy of life had passed from illusion to tragedy; why that coveted experience had brought so much in its train of woe and gloom and desolation; why she should be the chosen recipient of these confidences; that it should fall to her lot to crush Nora's heart with a suspicion so hateful; that her own instinctive dislike to Jasper Standish must suddenly arraign and condemn him? All this rushed dimly and confusedly over her, and made her senses reel and her heart grow faint.