There was a good heart, or Rachel was much mistaken.

They would have seen more of each other if Mrs.Carrington had had her way.

Rachel remembered her on the occasion of the solitary visit she had received at Holloway--for Mrs.Carrington had been the visitor.
"Don't tell Jim," she had said, "when you get off and come to see us." And she had kissed her captive sister in a way that made poor Rachel sometimes think she had a friend in England after all; but that was before her committal; and thereafter from that quarter not a word.

It was not Mrs.Carrington whom Rachel blamed, however, and those last words of hers implied an invitation which had never been withdrawn.

But invitation or no invitation, friend or no friend, Mrs.Carrington she would have to see.