Oh, dear; oh, dear! It will take me a long time to understand it.
Your husband could not possibly object to your living here till he found you a suitable home.

What _will_ Alfred say?
Oh, you must certainly come here.

I shan't have a moment's' rest if you go away somewhere whilst things are in this dreadful state.' 'I don't think that will be necessary,' Adela replied with a reassuring smile.

'It might very well have happened that we had nothing at all, not even the hundred pounds; but a wife can't run away for reasons of that kind--can she, Letty ?' Letty gazed with her eyes of loving pity, and sighed, 'I suppose not, dear.' Adela sat with them for only a few minutes more.

She did not feel able to chat at length on a crisis such as this, and the tone of her mother's sympathy was not soothing to her.