Why had he sent her there to break her heart in a disgraceful retirement, when she had never wronged him?
From morning to night she had no employment, no amusement, nothing to satisfy her cravings.

Why was she to be doomed to such an existence?
She had declared that as long as she could have her boy with her, she would be happy.

She was allowed to have her boy; but she was anything but happy.

When she received Colonel Osborne's letter,--while she held it in her hand still unopened, she never for a moment thought that that could make her happy.

But there was in it something of excitement.