"She hasn't realised it." "I wonder, then, what will become of Anne." Mrs.Pooley retreated altogether before this gross application of transcendent truth.

She had not come to Mrs.Eliott's to talk about Mrs.Majendie.
Dr.Gardner smiled.

"Oh, come," he said, "you _are_ personal." "I'm not," said Mrs.Eliott, conscious of her lapse and ashamed of it.
"But, after all, Anne's my friend.

I know people blamed me because I never told her.

How could I tell her ?" "No," said Mrs.Gardner soothingly, "how could you ?" "Anne," continued Mrs.Eliott, "was so reticent.