But I am not sorry we have come, all things considered,' she replied.

For the first time a sense of triumph possessed her, and she did not altogether deplore that the young thing at her side should learn that their lives had been antagonized by other influences than their own.
The subject was no more alluded to during the long and dreary walk home.
But in some way or other a story was whispered about the many-dairied lowland that winter that Mrs.Lodge's gradual loss of the use of her left arm was owing to her being 'overlooked' by Rhoda Brook.

The latter kept her own counsel about the incubus, but her face grew sadder and thinner; and in the spring she and her boy disappeared from the neighbourhood of Holmstoke..