It seemed to her that this opposition to her happiness was but a continuation of that which her mother had always made to her marriage.

The Boltons were all against her.

It was a terrible sorrow to her.

But she knew how to bear it bravely.

In the tenderness of her husband, who at this time was very tender to her, she had her great consolation.
On the day of her return she had been very ill,--so ill that Caldigate and his father had been much frightened.