It couldn't be otherwise.' 'Don't think of it another moment.' Alice would gladly have retreated, but durst not omit what seemed to her the essential because the bitterest words.
'I beg your pardon.' 'No, no!' exclaimed Adela quickly.

'Go and lie down a little; you look so tired.

Try not to be unhappy, your husband will not let harm come to you.' Alice returned to the house, hating her sister-in-law with a perfect hatred.
The hated one took her way into Wanley.

She had no pleasant mission--that of letting her mother and Letty know what had happened.
The latter she found in the garden behind the house dancing her baby-boy up and down in the sunlight.

Letty did not look very matronly, it must be confessed; but what she lacked in mature dignity was made up in blue-eyed and warm-checked happiness.