Her hair is very white, but her face looks young, only she has the saddest expression I ever saw on any one's face." "I should think she would look sad after seventeen years of Eleanor's whims," remarked Nora bluntly.

"It would wear me out to be with her continually, she is so changeable." "Mrs.Gray told me," remarked Anne, "that Miss Nevin's life had been one long sacrifice to the pleasure of others.

First her father, then her step-sister and now Eleanor.

She was engaged to be married to a young English officer, and he died of fever while stationed in India.

So, there is reason for her sad expression." "I once read, somewhere," said Jessica sentimentally, "that ''Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.'" "Humph!" said Nora.