By the by, do you ever see Sally ?" Ida looked up with a smile and said, "Yes; do you ?" "No; but I hear of her." "From your friend ?" "Yes, from O'Gree." "Do your other friends still live near you ?" Ida asked, speaking quickly, as if to interrupt what Waymark was about to say.
"The Castis?
Oh yes." "What is Mrs.Casti like ?" she said, in a tone which attracted Waymark's attention.
"Well," he replied, "it's difficult to describe her.

There's nothing very good about her, and I suppose nothing very bad.

I see little of her now; she's almost always ill." "What's the matter with her ?" "Can't say; general weakness and ill health, I think ?" "But she's so young, isn't she?
Has she friends to go and see her ?" "Very few, I think." "It must be dreadful to be like that," said Ida.

"I'm thankful that I have my health, at all events.

Loneliness isn't so hard to bear, as it must be in illness." "Do you feel lonely ?" "A little, sometimes," said Ida.