She is ever justifying some past action of her life.

"An eye for an eye," she says, "and a tooth for a tooth.

Is it not the law ?" And these words she will repeat daily, almost from morn till night.
It has been said that this poor lady has no friends.

Friends who would be anxious for her recovery, who would care to see her even in her wretched condition, who might try to soothe her harassed heart with words of love, she has none.

Such is her condition now, and her temperament, that it may be doubted whether any words of love, however tender, could be efficacious with her.