Dear Faustina

An excerpt from the beginning:


CHAPTER I.


'TEARS!'

The accent with which this monosyllable is uttered, though tempered with leniency, is undoubtedly one of reproach. The person to whom it is addressed recognizes it as such, and, though it has not at once a quite drying effect upon her, yet it is in a voice of indistinct apology that she proffers her excuse.

' I do not think I am much of a cryer ; you have never seen me cry before.'

' Why do I see you cry now ?'

The reproacher and reproached are b...