Perhaps a little advice on my part might help you.

We shall break up in a week, Ned, and I shall be going away for a time.

I should like to think before I went that things were going on better with you." "I don't want to say anything against my mother," Ned said in a low voice.

"She means kindly, sir; but, oh! it is so hard to bear.

She is always talking about father, not as you would talk, sir, but just as if he were alive and might come in at any moment, and it seems sometimes as if it would drive me out of my mind." "No doubt it is trying, my boy," Mr.Porson said; "but you see natures differ, and we must all bear with each other and make allowances.