40/53 She speaks as an educated woman, and is certainly very devoted.' 'What of her present position? Friends have been very anxious to help her. That's what I say,--only let your misery drive you out of the world, and people will find out all at once how very easily they might have saved you. A hundredth part of the interest that has been shown in the family since poor Mr.Hood's death would have found endless ways of making his life very different. All sorts of people have suddenly discovered that he really was a very deserving man, and that something ought long since to have been done for him. |