THE REDEMPTION OF ANTHONY
The Drakes had been in Italy nearly a year now, delightfully situated in an old Italian palace, with a wonderful garden. Anthony called it "Priscilla's garden," and threatened to write a poem thereon. Priscilla, however, found herself rebelling sometimes at the very perfection of their life. Her young, restive spirit longed for change, or for the old conditions of life at home in America. Then, too, her mother's letters of late seemed to hint at a loneliness too deep for words, and a want which none but Tony and Priscilla could fill.
The year had brought slow but steady changes in Priscilla. The child whom Anthony Drake had married had blossomed into a woman during the days spent so much alone, and slowly into her life had come a love for Anthony so great and all-absorbing that it frightened her. She thought with wonder of the childish affection she had given him at the time of their marriage, and she shuddered away from the thought that she had married him mainly to please her
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