She did not persevere, but let sad silence be her answer.
'Would you in no case stay in Dunfield ?' 'No; I must leave Dunfield.

I don't think I shall find it difficult to get employment.' Mrs.Baxendale had never ventured to ask for the girl's confidence, nor even to show that she desired it.

Emily was more perplexing to her now than even at the time of Wilfrid Athel's rejection.

She consoled herself with the thought that a period of active occupation was no doubt the best means of restoring this complex nature to healthy views of life; that at all events it was likely to bring about an unravelling of the mysteries in which her existence seemed to have become involved.

You could not deal with her as with other girls; the sources of her strength and her weakness lay too deep; counsel to her would be a useless, an impertinent, interference with her grave self-guiding.