I had nothing but groans and moans to send.' 'You didn't stay long, I trust, with that trying Mrs.Carr ?' 'Three years!' sighed Virginia.
'Oh, your patience!' 'I wished to leave again and again.

But at the end she always begged me not to desert her--that was how she put it.

After all, I never had the heart to go.' 'Very kind of you, but--those questions are so difficult to decide.
Self-sacrifice may be quite wrong, I'm afraid.' 'Do you think so ?' asked Virginia anxiously.
'Yes, I am sure it is often wrong--all the more so because people proclaim it a virtue without any reference to circumstances.

Then how did you get away at last ?' 'The poor woman died.

Then I had a place scarcely less disagreeable.
Now I have none at all; but I really must find one very soon.' She laughed at this allusion to her poverty, and made nervous motions.
'Let me tell you what my own course has been,' said Miss Nunn, after a short reflection.