'She was ill ?' 'A combination of overwork and influenza, I should think; but no doubt the tragedy had a good deal to do with it.

She went down to stay for a couple of months with an uncle in Dorsetshire, and got better.

Then the family lost some money, through a solicitor's mismanagement--enough anyway to make a great deal of difference.

The mother too broke down in health.

Miss Bremerton came home at once, and took everything on her own shoulders.