It rests my heart.' Mrs.Strang, who had come up to the bedside, looked down upon her sister with amused eyes.

She herself was curiously like the Squire, even as to her hair, which was thick and fair, and already whitening, though she was not yet thirty.

Human thinness could hardly have been carried further than she and the Squire achieved it.

She had her father's nose also.

But the rest of her features were delicately regular, and her quick blue eyes were those of a woman who told no falsehoods herself, and had little patience with other people's.
'My dear Alice, why do you believe doctors?
They always tell you what you want to hear.