CHAPTER XXXII.
HONOR.
Having now gained a partial insight into Letty's new position, Mary pondered what she could do to make life more of life to her.

Not many knew better than she that the only true way to help a human heart is to lift it up; but she knew also that every kind of loving aid tends more or less to that uplifting; and that, if we can not do the great thing, we must be ready to do the small: if we do not help in little things, how shall we be judged fit to help in greater?
We must help where we can, that we may help where we can not.

The first and the only thing she could for a time think of, was, to secure for Letty, if possible, a share in her husband's pleasures.
Quietly, yet swiftly, a certain peaceful familiarity had established itself between Hesper and Mary, to which the perfect balance of the latter and her sense of the only true foundation of her position contributed far more than the undefined partiality of the former.

The possibility of such a conversation as I am now going to set down was one of the results.
"Do you like Mr.Helmer, ma'am ?" asked Mary one morning, as she was brushing her hair.
"Very well.

How do you know anything of him ?" "Not many people within ten miles of Testbridge do not know Mr.
Helmer," answered Mary.
"Yes, yes, I remember," said Hesper.