Nor was this sense at all lightened or brightened by her parting remarks.
"I am thy true friend, Jane, that is something better than thy mother-in-law.

I want to see thee and John happy, and I assure thee it will be easy now to take one step thou must never take if thou wants another happy hour.

John is Yorkshire, flesh and bone, heart and soul, and thou ought to know that Yorkshiremen take no back steps.

If John's love wanes, though it be ever so little, it has waned for thee to the end of thy life.

Thou can never win it back.