Nina's peril

Selwyn’s sister-in-law and the world at large regarded the strange marriage of Talbot and Nina. The second marriage resulted happily, perhaps the more happily because no children came to usurp the place of the loving, petted, and yet willful little Nina. Fielding thought, gazing at the fair, young face and listening to the tender, musical voice. “One heart like Nina’s, so fresh, so pure, so true, is worth a hundred fickle coquettes like Sibyl St. They could not look for a moment at the beautiful girl who had so longed to live because she had found out at last that her husband loved her.