The result was disastrous; she has been in a doleful mood ever since, and yesterday assured Mrs.Tolbridge that if it should prove that Mrs.Drane and her daughter, who had been so good to her, had become so poor that they could not afford to employ a servant, she must leave us and go to them.
She would ask no wages and would take no denial.

She would stay with them and serve them for the love she bore them, as long as they needed her.

I know she is in earnest, for she immediately wrote to Mrs.Drane, and asked me to put the letter in the post-office; and, by the way, she writes a great deal better hand than I do." Miss Panney, who had reseated herself, gazed earnestly at the floor.
"Doctor," she said, "this is very serious.

I have not yet met La Fleur, but I very much want to.

I am convinced that she is a woman of character, and when she says she intends to do a thing, she will do it.