Don't worry, please.

Be as cheerful as you can, and leave the search to us." The woman sighed.
"Will believes she is alive, too," she said.

"He can't sleep or rest till he finds her, for my husband loves her as well as I do.

But sometimes I feel it's wicked to hope she is alive.

I know what she suffers, for I suffered, myself; and life isn't worth living when despair and disappointment fills it." "I cannot see why Lucy shouldn't yet be happy," protested Beth.