14/18 If I have anything to bear I can bear it in silence." "But, my dear maid, you are too young--you don't know what the present state of things may lead to. Just see the harm done a'ready! Your husband would have gone away to Budmouth to a bigger practice if it had not been for this. Although it has gone such a little way, it is poisoning your future even now. Mrs.Charmond is thoughtlessly bad, not bad by calculation; and just a word to her now might save 'ee a peck of woes." "Ah, I loved her once," said Grace, with a broken articulation, "and she would not care for me then! Now I no longer love her. Let her do her worst: I don't care." "You ought to care. |