I hope you have now got over your great sorrow .-- This boarding-house is horribly poky but cheap, which is the great thing.

I arrived the night before last, "And I am Your affectionate cousin FANNY MERTON." No, it really was not an attractive letter.

On the second reading, Diana pushed it away from her, rather hastily.

Then she reminded herself again, elaborately, of the Mertons' disadvantages in life, painting them in imagination as black as possible.

And before she had gone far with this process all doubt and distaste were once more swept away by the rush of yearning, of an interest she could not subdue, in this being of her own flesh and blood, the child of her mother's sister.