"Rebecca says--'Hadn't you better let me go for that woman again ?'" "I think I had better stay for the present," Charlotte replied.
"Of course--I know you do better for him--than anybody else could, but--" "How is Rebecca ?" asked Charlotte.
"She is getting along pretty well, but it's slow.

She's kind of worried about you, you know.

She's had considerable herself to bear.
It's hard to have folks--" William stopped short, his face burning.
"I am not afraid, if I know I am doing what is right," said Charlotte.

"You tell Rebecca I am coming in to see her as soon as I can get a chance." One contingency had never occurred to Barney in his helpless clinging to Charlotte.

He had never once dreamed that people might talk disparagingly about her in consequence.