"He has not slept well of late." "None of us has slept well," I said.
"It has almost broken our hearts, child, to be so cruel to you.

I don't believe we have had a happy hour since it was settled.

We have lain awake till cock-crow, night after night." I had it in my mind to ask her if she had heard the ghosts, but she had never liked the talk about the ghosts, and, remembering that, I was silent.
"We ought to have faced it out," she went on.

"As I said to Lord St.
Leger, if the disgrace was there, there was no doing away with it, even though only Garret Dawson knew it.

Mary always said she would not believe dishonour and deliberate misdoing on Luke's part.