Of course they mustn't think of coming home.
Joyce could do most good where she was, if later on they should have to depend on her partly, as one of the bread-winners.

And Mary must make the most of the rest of the year at school.

Jack had sent the check for the balance of her expenses only the morning before the accident occurred.
Mary waited to hear no more.

With the tears streaming down her face, and her lips working pitifully, she scrambled up from the floor, and ran into the next room, shutting the door behind her.

The hurt was too deep for her to bear another moment, in any one's presence.