em. Listen, then, lest He should come again and visit you
with greater sufferings."

"Purified by Suffering." The words came floating back to Katy, just as
Uncle Ephraim had spoken them in the pleasant meadowland, and just as
they had sometimes haunted her since, but never having so deep a meaning
as now, when Helen's words suggested them again. She was suffering, oh,
so terribly, but was she purifying, too? She feared not, and after the
sad parting with her mother and sister was over she turned her face to
her pillow, trying so hard to pray that God would make her His own, and
by the suffering He sent purify her for heaven.

CHAPTER XLI.

DOMESTIC TROUBLES.

From the bathroom, which adjoined Katy's sickroom, Wilford had heard all
that passed between the sisters, and his face grew dark as he thought of
having his "ruffled feathers smoothed" even by the little thin white
hand, which, the first time it had a chance laid itself upon his face
with a caressing motion, from which he involuntarily drew back, thinking
the affection thus timidly expressed was all put on with a view to being
good, as he termed it.

Wilford was in a most unhappy frame of mind. He was not pleased that
Katy had heard of Genevra, and imparted his secret to others. He did not
like being humbled as he had been, even Mrs. Lennox taking it upon
herself to lecture him for his misdemeanors, sobbing as she lectured,
and asking "how he could treat Katy so?" He did not like, either, to
lose Helen's good opinion, as he was sure he had, while, worse than all
the rest, was the galling fact that Morris Grant loved his wife, and was
undoubtedly more worthy of her than himself. He had said that he forgave
Morris, and at the time he said it he fancied he did, but as the days
went by, and thought was all the busier from the moody silence he
maintained, there gradually came to life a feeling of dislike, if not of
hatred, for the man, whose name he could not hear without a frown,
telling Katy very sharply once that he wished she would not talk so much
of Cousin Morris, as if there were no other physician in the world! Dr.
Craig would have done quite as well, and for his part he wished they had
employed him.

Wilford knew he did not mean what he said, but he was in a very
unamiable frame of mind, and watched Katy close, to detect, if possible,
some sign by which he should know that Morris' love was reciprocated.
But Katy was innocence itself, and as the w