Now it was strong and quiet, marked by purpose and self-reliance.
Ignorance had been her only peril in the past, as it had been the cause of her unhappy connection with Jasper Kimber.

The atmosphere in which she was raised had been unmoral; it had not been consciously immoral.
Her temper and her indignation against her man for drinking had been the means of driving them apart.

He would have married her in those days, if she had given the word, for her will was stronger than his own; but she had broken from him in an agony of rage and regret and despised love.
She was now, again, as she had been in those first days before she went with Jasper Kimber; when she was the rose-red angel of the quarters; when children were lured by the touch of her large, shapely hands; when she had been counted a great nurse among her neighbours.

The old simple untutored sympathy was in her face.
They sat for a long time in silence, and at length Faith said: "Thee is happy now with her who is to marry Lord Eglington ?" Kate nodded, smiling.

"Who could help but be happy with her! Yet a temper, too--so quick, and then all over in a second.