I noticed that he did not talk now so much of coming back as he had done at first; but at first he had been very lonely for Aghadoe and all of us.
Day by day during that summer the shadow seemed to darken on Lord St.
Leger's face, and my grandmother looked no less harassed.

It was, indeed, cruel to see the faces which had been placid enough, despite the lines of sorrow, becoming so haggard and careworn.

I used to hate to see them so anxiously polite to Garret Dawson, so willing to sit at his table and have him at theirs.

I noticed, too, that they looked strangely at me at times; and I found my grandmother in tears more than once.

It hurt me that she should weep at her age.
Another thing I noticed was that they ceased to talk of Theobald; and when his letters came they would read them without comment, or they would take my news of him without an eager stretching forth of their hands for the letter as of old.