All the time now Maria was saying to herself that her mother was going to die, that God could make her well, but He would not.

She was conscious of blasphemy, and she took a certain pleasure in it.
Her aunt Maria arrived on the train expected, and she entered the house, preceded by the cabman bearing her little trunk, which she had had ever since she was a little girl.

It was the only trunk she had ever owned.

Both physicians and the nurse were with Mrs.Edgham when her sister arrived.

Harry Edgham had been walking restlessly up and down the parlor, which was a long room.