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 "Not particularly. I knew people said it was wrong."

"Did you think it very indelicate and vulgar?"

"That is all."

"That it was only bad taste?"

"Yes."

"But you didn't think it was wrong?"

"I didn't fully realize it until I went to Paris."

"But you thought it was wrong?"

"Yes."

"Did you belong to any religious organization?"

"No."

"You went to church and Sunday school in Pittsburg?"

"Not in Pittsburg."

"In Paris it was impressed on you that White had done you a terrible wrong?"

"In a way."

"Before you left Paris you had begun to look on such relations as very wrong?"

"Yes."

"Had you come to a full understanding of the infamous character of White's act?"

"Yes—but not so much as I have now."

"Yet it was this that induced your renunciation of Thaw's great love?"

"Yes." said Mrs. Thaw, as tears welled to her eyes.

"Did you refuse Thaw solely because of the oc