I want you for a companion, rather than a maid.

I, too, have had my heart troubles; not like yours, but heavy enough to make me wish I could die." It was seldom that Anna alluded to herself in this way, and to do so to a stranger was utterly foreign to the Richards' nature.

But Anna could not help it.

There was something about Adah which interested her greatly.

She could not wholly shield her from her mother's and sisters' pride, but she would do what she could.
"Oh, pride, pride," she whispered to herself, "of how much pain hast thou been the cause." Pride had sent her Charlie over the sea without her; pride had separated her brother from the Lily she was sure he loved, as he could never love the maiden to whom he was betrothed; and pride, it seemed, had been at the root of all this young girl's sorrow.