Her reception was neither cold nor cordial.
"I think," she said, "that my visit was untimely.

Some recent occurrence had, probably, disturbed her mind so deeply; that she was not able to rise above the depression that followed.

I noticed a bitterness of feeling about her that was not apparent on the occasion of my first call; and a hardness of manner and sentiment, that indicated a condition of mental suffering having its origin in a sense of wrong.

Mr.Dewey passed through the hall, and went out a few minutes after I entered the house, and before his wife joined me in the parlor.

It may have been fancy; but I thought, while I sat there awaiting her appearance, that I heard angry words in the room above.