She had made her bargain with her eyes open, and would not now ask for things which had not been stipulated in the contract.

She was alone, and all the world was turning its back on her.

The relatives of her late husband would, as a matter of course, be her enemies.

Them she had never seen, and that they should speak evil of her seemed to be only natural.

But her own relatives were removed from her by a gulf nearly equally wide.
Of Brabazon cousins she had none nearer than the third or fourth degree of cousinship, and of them she had never taken heed, and expected no heed from them.