She had been so used to it in the old days, that it seemed only natural.

And then her aunt considered her health in the kindest way.

Now that Letty had known some of the troubles of marriage, she felt more sympathy with her, did not look down upon her from quite such a height, and to Letty this was strangely delightful.

Oh, what a dry, hard, cold world this would grow to, but for the blessing of its many sicknesses! When Godfrey saw her moving about the house as in former days, but changed, like one of the ghosts of his saddest dreams, a new love began to rise out of the buried seed of the old.

In vain he reasoned with himself, in vain he resisted.