'Who can want her child to be unhappy?
But there is an unhappiness harder to be borne, more to be dreaded, enduring so much longer than that which we may suffer here.' 'Will you not come and pray that I may be delivered also from that?
As I am going from you, will you not let me know that you are there with me at the last moment.

Though you do not love him, you do not wish to quarrel with me.

Oh, mamma, let me feel at any rate that you are there.' Then the mother promised that she would be there, in the church, though unknown to or at least unrecognised by any one else.

When the morning came, and when Hester was dropped at The Nurseries, in order that she might go up and be invested in her finery amidst her bridesmaids, who were all her cousins, the carriage went on and took Mrs.Bolton to the church.

It was represented to her that, by this arrangement, she would be forced to remain an hour alone in the cold building.