It was just and proper. But only Orpha had the courage to speak -- to seek to probe his mind -- to sound the depths of this household's misery. Orpha! whom to guard from the mere disagreeabilities of life were a man's coveted delight! _She_ our leader? The one to take her stand in the breach yawning between the old life and the new?
"You mean," she forced herself to say, "that what had happened to Martha's brother may have happened to my beloved father?"
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