But it is not easy.

It is never easy!" "Of course it is not," he assented.

"Hester, have you thought over what I said to you last time I was here ?" She shook her head.
"What is the use of thinking ?" she asked, quietly.

"I could not leave her." "You mean that she would not let you go ?" Mannering asked.
"No! It is not that," the girl answered.

"Sometimes I think that she would be glad.