The infant's luncheon-hour had arrived, and the nourishment was still of Letty's own providing.

It was strange to see on her face the slow triumph of this ineffable bliss over the grief occasioned by the recent conversation.

Mrs.Waltham had floated into a stream of talk.
'Now, what a strange thing it is!' she observed, after many other reflections, and when the sound of her own voice had had time to soothe.
'On the very morning of the wedding I had the most singular misgiving, a feeling I couldn't explain.

One would almost think I had foreseen this very thing.

And you know very well, my dear, that the marriage troubled me in many ways.