She turned her face aside.

"Life is very difficult," she said.
"It gets simpler as one goes on, dear," Mrs.Ralston assured her gently.
"Not easy, oh no, not easy.

We were never meant to make an easy-chair of circumstance however favourable.

But if we only press on, it does get simpler, and the way opens out before us as we go.

I have learnt that at least from life." She paused a moment, then bent suddenly down and spoke into Stella's ear.