Her whole mental existence became a chain of fears, but the kind-hearted woman loved her children too tenderly to permit them to see it.

Only it was a relief to her heart when some of her evil forebodings were realized, to say that she had foreseen it all.
No trace of this was legible in her face, a countenance still pretty and pleasing in its unruffled placidity.

She talked very little, but what she did say was sensible, and proved how attentively she understood how to listen.

So she was welcome among Barine's guests.

Even the most distinguished received something from her, because he felt that the quiet woman understood him.
Before Barine had returned that evening, something had occurred which made her mother doubly regret the accident to her brother Arius the day before.