Again the feeling of almost terror which he had experienced the night when Maria had torn the paper off in her mother's room, came over him.
However, he made an effort and threw it off.
"Poor little Maria looked charming, thanks to you, dearest," he said, tenderly.
"Yes, I thought she did.

That gray suit was just the thing for her, wasn't it?
I never saw her look so pretty before," returned Ida, and her tone was full of self-praise for her goodness to Maria.
"Well, she will be a great deal happier," said Harry.

"It was a lonesome life for a child to lead." Harry Edgham had not an atom of tact.

Any woman might have judged from his remarks that she had been married on account of Maria; but Ida only responded with her never-changing smile.
"Yes," said she, "I think myself that she will be much happier, dear." Privately she rather did resent her husband's speech, but she never lost sight of the fact that a smile is more becoming than a frown.
Maria remained boarding at Mrs.Jonas White's until her father and his new wife returned.

She did not have a very happy time.