Because, she said, you'd had such a miserable life." "Poor Edith! So that was the nearest she could get to it.

Things you didn't understand and didn't like!" "I didn't know what she meant." "Of course you didn't.

Who could?
But I'm sorry to say that Edith made me pretty well believe you did." He was silent a while, trying to fathom the reason of his sister's strange duplicity.

Apparently he gave it up.
"You can't be a brute to a poor little woman with a bad spine," said he; "but I'm not going to forgive Edith for that." Anne flamed through her pallor.

"For what ?" she said.