"I forgot to tell you that I met her and her husband on the street to-day." "Are you certain ?" "Oh yes." "Did you speak to them ?" "No.

They saw me, but instantly averted their faces.

Mrs.Marion looked very pale, as if she had been sick." "Poor woman! She has had heart-sickness enough," said Mrs.Darlington.
"I shall never forgive myself for turning her out of the house.

If I had known where she was going!" "But we did not know that, mother," said Edith.
"We knew that she had neither friends nor a home," replied the mother.
"Ah me! when our own troubles press heavily upon us, we lose our sympathy for others!" "It was not so in this case," remarked Edith.

"Deeply did we sympathize with Mrs.Marion.But we could not bear the weight without going under ourselves." "I don't know, I don't know," said Mrs.Darlington, half to herself.
"We might have kept up with her a little longer.