Once done, you will have perfect peace." Constant dripping wears away a stone.

My father was so accustomed to hearing she must go that at last the idea became familiar to him.

I am quite sure that Miss Reinhart had made this her test; that she had said to herself--if she had her own way in this, she should in everything else.

It was her test of what she might do and how far she might go.
It came at last.

The blow fell on us, and she won.