They could not let her baby come into the world with poverty as its only inheritance.

Till now she had been unable to master her feeling of hatred and bitterness for her brother Nathaniel; her intense dislike and contempt for her sister Monica.

From the time she left England she had not written to either of them.

Could she now?
Something decided her.
One night O'Connell came back disheartened.

Try as he would, he could not conceal it.