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Alice remained at the Mayhews' for ten days, previous to going to Monkswood. She was very quiet and subdued in public, but in private her feelings were not so well under control. If the walls of her room could have spoken, the good folks downstairs would have been amazed at some of their revelations. They could have told how Alice flung herself on her bed the night the _Alligator_ sailed, and wept the bitterest tears she ever shed.
"If he _is_ innocent," she said, "he will never, never forgive me. What have I done? I have had the happiness of my life in my own keeping, and thrown it away with both hands."