I am going to see mother." "Call at Hatton House as you come back, and I will meet you there." "I shall not come back today.

I feel ill--and no wonder." "When will you return ?" "I don't know.

I tell you I feel ill." "Then you had better not go to Harlow House." "Where else should a woman go in trouble but to her mother?
When her heart is breaking, then she knows that the nest of all nests is her mother's breast." John wanted to tell her that God and a loving husband might and surely would help her, but when she raised her lovely, sad eyes brimming with tears and he saw how white and full of suffering her face was, he could not find in his heart to dispute her words.

For he suffered in seeing her suffer far more than she could understand.
At her own room door he left her and his heart was so heavy he could not go to the mill.

He could not think of gold and cotton while there was such an abyss between him and his wife.