She did not get well very fast, and the color came slowly back into her lips and cheeks.

She was far happier than she had been before since she first came to Olney.

She could not say that she loved her husband as a true wife ought to love a man like Richard Markham, but she found a pleasure in his society which she had never experienced before, while Aunt Barbara's presence was a constant source of joy.

That good woman had prolonged her stay far beyond what she had thought it possible when she left Chicopee.

She could not tear herself away, when Ethie pleaded so earnestly for her to remain a little longer, and so, wholly impervious to the hints which Mrs.Markham occasionally threw out, that her services were no longer needed as nurse to Ethelyn, she stayed on week after week, seeing far more than she seemed to see, and making up her mind pretty accurately with regard to the prospect of Ethie's happiness, if she remained an inmate of her husband's family.
Aunt Barbara and Mrs.Markham did not harmonize at all.