It is his one great study, and I am thankful he has such a hobby to distract his mind from his own trouble." "Their coming to England must have made a great change in your life," I remarked.
"It _has_ made a difference," she answered.

"But one should not lead one's life exactly to please one's self.

They were in sore distress, and I am thankful that they came to me, and that I had the power to help them." This set me thinking.

She spoke gravely, and I knew that she meant what she said.

But underlying it there was a suggestion that, for some reason or another, she had not been altogether favourably impressed by her visitors.