She thought of Stella, of Letty, even of Alice; _they_ had not been doomed to learn in suffering.

To her, alone of all women, knowledge had come with a curse.
A month passed.

Since Rodman's departure from Wanley, 'Arry Mutimer was living at the Manor.

Her husband and 'Arry were Adela's sole companions; the former she dreaded, the approach of the latter always caused her insuperable disgust.

To Letty there was born a son; Adela could not bend to the little one with a whole heart; her own desolate motherhood wailed the more bitterly.
Once more a change was coming.