We have been so happy!' 'I am glad you have been happy.

Such joys are short-lived; but, still--' 'He has been so good to me, mamma!' Good! What was the meaning of the word good?
She doubted the goodness of such goodness as his.

Do not they who are tempted by the pleasures of the world always praise the good-nature and kindness of them by whom they are tempted?
There are meanings to the word good which are so opposed one to another! 'A husband is, I suppose, generally kind to his wife, at any rate for a little time,' she said.
'Oh, mamma, I do so wish you knew him!' The woman turned her face round, away from her daughter, and assumed that look of hard, determined impregnable obstinacy with which Hester had been well acquainted all her life.

But the young wife had come there with a purpose, not strong perhaps, in actual hope, but resolute even against hope to do her best.
There must be an enduring misery to her unless she could bring her mother into some friendly relation with her husband, and she had calculated that the softness produced by her return would give a better chance for this than she might find at any more protracted time.

But Mrs.Bolton had also made her calculations and had come to her determination.