How can I help worrying?
Even if poor Lucinda is acquitted, lots of folks will always believe it, and her boarders will drop away, and as for Hannah Simmons, I shouldn't be a mite surprised if it broke her match off." "It's a dreadful thing," said Henry; "but don't you fret too much over it, Sylvia.

Maybe she killed herself, and if they think that Lucinda won't have any trouble afterwards." "I think some have that opinion now," said Horace.
Sylvia sniffed.

"A woman don't kill herself as long as she's got spirit enough to fix herself up," she said.

"I saw her only yesterday in a brand-new dress, and her hair was crimped tight enough to last a week, and her cheeks--" "Come, Sylvia," said Henry, admonishingly.
"You needn't be afraid.

I ain't going to talk about them that's dead and gone, and especially when they've gone in such a dreadful way; and maybe it wasn't true," said Sylvia.