Out of her sphere - University Library

254 OUT OF HER SPHERE.
her case, as there would have been in
Beatey's, to throw a glow over the hard
dry fact, that in marrying Audley Dale,
she would marry a man who would be
virtually banished from his native land.
She knew that all the bright rosy future
she had pictured, could never be realized
now. Audley, if he left the prison, would
have to leave his regiment too. For all
practical purposes he would be ostracised,
and have to spend his life either in some
cheap French watering-place, or else try if
he could make a new career for himself in
Canada or New Zealand. It was so dif-
ferent from the life that she had painted,
from the life that she would have delighted
to lead, and for which she was adapted
as different as this dull, grey day, with
the sunless sky, and cold, unsmiling sea,
was from that other one she remembered
so well, and which now seemed so long
ago. But she was going to keep her word
;