I can trust you to do what's right." Ida sank down on the floor of the closet into which she had been thrust.
Utter darkness was around her, and a darkness as black seemed to hang over all her prospects of future happiness.

She had been snatched in a moment from parents, or those whom she regarded as such, and from a comfortable and happy, though humble home, to this dismal place.

In place of the kindness and indulgence to which she had been accustomed, she was now treated with harshness and cruelty..