Who will blame her?
He had done her all the ill he could, and by his own deed she was beyond his reach.

Nor can I see that the debt she owed him for being her father was of the heaviest.
Her husband was again out of health--certain attacks to which he was subject were now coming more frequently.

I do not imagine his wife offered many prayers for his restoration.

Indeed, she never prayed for the thing she desired; and, while he and she occupied separate rooms, the one solitary thing she now regarded as a privilege, how _could_ she pray for his recovery?
Greatly contrary to Mr.Redmain's unexpressed desire, Miss Yolland had been installed as Hesper's cousin-companion.

After the marriage, she ventured to unfold a little, as she had promised, but what there was yet of womanhood in Hesper had shrunk from further acquaintance with the dimly shadowed mysteries of Sepia's story; and Sepia, than whom none more sensitive to change of atmosphere, had instantly closed again; and now not unfrequently looked and spoke like one feeling her way.