6/124 You are moreover independent in your own house. When the day's work is done, you come together as one family, and shut out the intruding world." "Yes, it is better, far better," replied Mrs.Darlington. "Ah, that first mistake of mine was a sad one!" "Yet out of it has come good," said Mr.Ellis. "That painful experience corrected many false views, and gave to all your characters a new and higher impulse. It is through disappointment, trial, and suffering, that we grow wise here; and true wisdom is worth the highest price we are ever called upon to pay for it." Yes, it is so. |