"It is all hidden away, and no one can find it; everything has gone wrong together." "Well, I think, dear, that you had better go up to bed.

I will go with you.

At the present time this, of course, has come upon you as an additional shock.

I would gladly have shielded you from it for a time if I could have done so, but you must have learned it tomorrow, and I quite agree with Mark that is was better that he should tell you this evening.
I sent down to the town today to the doctor's and asked him to send me up a soothing draught, thinking that you might be upset by the news.

I hope by the morning you will be able to look at matters more calmly." Some time later Mrs.Cunningham came down again.
"She has cried herself to sleep," she said.