'I was so sorry for her, and felt so powerless.

She cried a little.

All I could do was to entreat her not to behave rashly.

I thought her sister ought to know--' 'Oh, Miss Madden is useless.

Monica cannot look to her for advice or support.' After this conversation Rhoda passed a very unquiet night, and gloom appeared in her countenance for the next few days.
She wished to have a private interview with Monica, but doubted whether it would in any degree serve her purpose--that of discovering whether certain suspicions she entertained had actual ground.