I can't bear to see that deadly coldness.

It isn't Stella." "We must be patient," Mrs.Ralston said.
There were tears in the boy's own eyes for which she liked him, but she did not encourage him to further confidence.

It was not her way to discuss any friend with a third person, however intimate.
Tommy left the subject without realizing that she had turned him from it.
"I don't know in the least how she is left," he said restlessly.
"Haven't an idea what sort of state Dacre's affairs were in.

I ought to have asked him, but I never had the chance; and everything was done in such a mighty hurry.

I don't suppose he had much to leave if anything.
It was a fool marriage," he ended bitterly.