Everything is so miserable! She says it's all the money, and that she knew from the first how it would be.

And I'm afraid some of what she says is true, I am indeed, Emma.

But things happen in a way you could never think.

I half wish myself the money had never come.
It's making us all miserable.' Emma listened, expecting from phrase to phrase some word which would be to her a terrible enlightenment But Alice had ceased, and the word still unspoken.
'You say he sent me a message ?' She did not ask directly the cause of Mrs.Mutimer's anger.

Instinct told her that to hear the message would explain all else.
'Emma, I'm afraid to tell you.