Yes, indeed, it has made me so much happier.

Life is worth living when one knows there is some one in the world who is dependent on one for earthly comfort.

Of course Mr.Carlyon has Theo, but she does not know him as I do.

I am at the cottage nearly every day." Malcolm listened and smiled, but he could not have spoken at that moment.

How little she guessed how her words stabbed him! She could tell him to his face that life was worth living "because there was some one dependent on her for earthly comfort," and yet she could leave him hungering and thirsting in that sad pilgrimage of his.