I think I should be doing the school harm if I were to stay here.
The answer to this letter did not reach Miss Crawley till after the magistrates' meeting on the Thursday, but it will be better for our story that it should be given here than postponed until the result of that meeting shall have been told.

Miss Dale's answer was as follows:-- Allington, -- December, 186--.
DEAR GRACE, Your letter has made me very unhappy.

If it can at all comfort you to know that mamma and I sympathize with you altogether, in that you may at any rate be sure.

But in such troubles nothing will give comfort.

They must be borne, till the fire of misfortune burns itself out.
I had heard about the affair a day or two before I got your note.