It has always appeared to me that we poor women are easily silenced and subjugated by a strong masculine will.
It is difficult to assert a timid individuality in the presence of a regnant force.
I answered her as gently as I could.

'Dear Gladys, you will make yourself ill.

Will it give you any relief to speak out?
I will listen to anything you have to say.' She drew a deep breath, and the colour ebbed back into her face.
'Perhaps it may be a relief: I am weary of silence,--of trying to bear it alone; and other things are wearing me out.

Etta is not so far wrong, after all.' And then she stopped, and looked at me wistfully, and her lips trembled.

'Ursula, you are a nurse; you go about comforting sick bodies and sick minds.