"My opinion is, you would have done well to encourage Luke.

He was steady and respectable; and old Roy must have saved plenty of money." Rachel burst into tears.
"What now!" cried Mrs.Verner.

"Not a word can anybody say to you lately, Rachel, but you must begin to cry as if you were heart-broken.
What has come to you, child?
Is anything the matter with you ?" The tears deepened into long sobs of agony, as though her heart were indeed broken.

She held her handkerchief up to her face, and went sobbing from the room.
Mrs.Verner gazed after her in very astonishment.

"What has taken her?
What can it possibly be ?" she uttered.