Have they been waiting for you in the Den, Grizel, all this time?
Have you found your mother's legacy at last?
Don't think that she sought them often.

It was never when she seemed to have anything to live for.

Tommy would not write to her, and so did not want her to write to him; but if that bowed her head, it never made her rebel.

She still had her many duties.

Whatever she suffered, so long as she could say, "I am helping him," she was in heart and soul the Grizel of old.