2/15 But her supreme belief in herself now received a heavy blow. She was never so near to loving John Derringham as during this Whitsuntide when she felt she had lost him. Cora Lutworth once said of her: "Cis is one of the happiest women in the world, because when she looks in the glass in the morning she never sees anything but herself, and is perfectly content. Most of us find shadows peeping over our shoulders of what we would like to be." Arabella found her employer extremely trying during the Saturday and Sunday, and was almost in tears when she wrote to her mother. If this did not render M.E.so difficult to please, the situation would be very instructive to watch. |