Two or three at most there were, whom he could venture to bring over with him from the old life to the new.

For Ida he could as yet provide no companionship at all.
But Ida did not feel the want.

Since the day of her coming to the new house her life had been very full; so much was passing within, that she desired to escape, rather than discover, new distractions in the world around her.

For the week or so during which Waymark had lain ill, her courage had triumphed over the sufferings to which she was herself a prey; the beginning of his recovery brought about a reaction in her state, and for some days she fell into a depressed feebleness almost as extreme as on the first morning of her freedom.

It distressed her to be spoken to, and her own lips were all but mute.