A sin conquered and uprooted, as yours has been, is less likely
to overcome us than some new temptation. I have no fear of that."
For the next few days Sophy Chantrey went through her daily work as in a
dream. There were many things to weigh and consider, and her husband
left her to herself, acting as if he had dismissed the subject
altogether from his mind. For herself she shrank from returning among
the people who had known her in her worst days, and whose curious
suspicious eyes would be always watching her, and bringing to her mind
sad recollections. She knew well that all her life long there would be
the memory of her sin kept alive in the hearts of her husband's
parishioners if he went back as rector of Upton. Yet she could not
resolve to banish him from the place he loved so well, and the people
who were so eager to have him with them again as their pastor. There was
nothing to be dreaded on account of his health, which was fully
reestablished. There was her boy, too, who was growing old enough to
require better teaching than they could secure for him in the colony.
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