She might have died had she been your wife, so I'd try to think it happened for the best, and you'll soon get to believing it did.

That's my experience.

You are young yet, and life has much in store for you.

You'll find some one to fill Lily's place; some one whom we shall all think worthy of you, and _we'll_ be so happy together." She did not speak of Alice Johnson, but she thought of her.

John, too, thought of Alice Johnson, wondering how she would look to him who might have married the daughter of a count.