You have suffered enough for us already; it is time we learned to suffer for ourselves.

I have learned.

And Norah is learning." "Norah!" "Yes.

I have done all I could to spare you.

I have told Norah." She had told Norah! Was this girl, whose courage had faced the terrible necessity from which a woman old enough to be her mother had recoiled, the girl Miss Garth had brought up?
the girl whose nature she had believed to be as well known to her as her own?
"Magdalen!" she cried out, passionately, "you frighten me!" Magdalen only sighed, and turned wearily away.
"Try not to think worse of me than I deserve," she said.