. 

" God knows, you have little reason to trust in me : but I 
am changed  ^I am much changed  ^I will not deceive you 
now. If you will believe in me this once, and shield me 
from exposure, and leave me in  where I may choose 
to go, I will pledge you my word that as soon as I shall 
ascertain that you have sailed for Europe, I will write you 
fully and truthfully where I am, and what I intend to do, 
and wiU from that time make no secret of my place of abode 
and my plans. 

" There is another   ^but I need not ask it of you. 
You, for your own sake are concerned to keep this cruel 
secret that I have so long been hiding, a secret still. It 
passes now from my hands to yours. Perhaps I should be 
insensible to disgrace and ignominy ; they cannot harm him 
now : but oh ! shield me from them, save his memory from 
. Do not let the world know of it till that day when 
the secrets of all  shall be revealed ; when God shall 
commit all judgment to His Son, who is more merciful than 
man  ^more compassionate and more just. 

" You have helped me hitherto, though I did not know 
whose hand was smoothing my way ; do not give