Alas! I saw at once that all my hopes for him, all the design of my long silence on this subject, had been in vain.

No, he had not forgotten her.

It was not in his nature to forget.
Mrs.Jessop went on, still addressing herself to me.
"I am sure I ought, on behalf of my dear pupil, to offer you both my warmest thanks.

Hers was a most trying position.

She never told me of it till afterwards, poor child! I am thankful her trouble was softened to her by finding that STRANGERS" (was it only my fancy that detected a slight stress on the word ?) "mere strangers could be at once so thoughtful and so kind." "No one could be otherwise to Miss March.