She would yet see her daughter in the position to which she had from the beginning resolved to lift her, cost what it might.

But the task was not to be an easy one.
After a period of intense suffering, as we have said, Edith grew calm and passive.

But she was never at ease with her mother, and seemed to be afraid of her.

To her father she was tender and confiding.

Mrs.
Dinneford soon saw that if Edith's consent to a divorce from her husband was to be obtained, it must come through her father's influence; for if she but hinted at the subject, it was met with a flash of almost indignant rejection.