Why do you pretend that nothing is the matter ?" The cold glimmer of the light of night reflected on snow came in at the diamond-shaped window, and the little white bed was just shadowed forth to Sophia's sight.

The girl in it might have been asleep, she remained so quiet.
"Are you thinking about your father ?" "I don't know." "Do you dislike being here ?" "No; but--" "But what?
What is troubling you, Eliza?
You're not a girl to cry for nothing.

Since you came to us I have seen that you are a straightforward, good girl; and you have plenty of sense, too.

Come, tell me how it is you cry like this ?" Eliza sat up.

"You won't tell them downstairs ?" she said slowly.
"You may trust me not to repeat anything that is not necessary." Eliza moved nervously, and her movements suggested hopelessness of trouble and difficulty of speech.