But nary a word.

They do say as it's give up althegither." "No, she's took up wi' nursin' Minta Hurd--wonderful took up," said another woman.

"They do say as Ann Mullins can't abear her.

When she's there nobody can open their mouth.

When that kind o' thing happens in the fambly it's bad enoof without havin' a lady trailin' about you all day long, so that you have to be mindin' yersel', an' thinkin' about givin' her a cheer, an' the like." One day in the dusk, more than a fortnight after the inquest, Marcella, coming from the Hurds' cottage, overtook Mrs.Jellison, who was going home after spending the afternoon with her daughter.
Hitherto Marcella had held aloof from Isabella Westall and her relations, mainly, to do her justice, from fear lest she might somehow hurt or offend them.