They did not concern her personally.

Why _make_ trouble for oneself?
And yet here was a sister whose husband was 'wounded and missing'-- probably, as Bridget firmly believed, already dead.

And the meaning of that fact--that possibility--was writ so large on Nelly's physical aspect, on Nelly's ways and plans, that there was really no getting away from it.

Also--there were other people to be considered.
Bridget did not at all want to offend or alienate Sir William Farrell--now less than ever.

And she was quite aware that he would think badly of her, if he suspected she was not doing her best for Nelly.
The September light waned.