Is the doctor still with her ?" "No, he has just gone.

The rector is there now.

She finds him a great comfort." "It was so sudden, Aunt Kesiah--she appeared well when I left her.

What caused the attack ?" "A talk she had had with Mr.Chamberlayne.It seems he thought it best to prepare her for the fact that your Uncle Jonathan left a good deal of his property--it amounts to an income of about ten thousand a year, I believe, to Reuben Merryweather's granddaughter when she comes of age.
Of course it wasn't the money--Angela never gave that a thought--but the admission that the girl was his illegitimate daughter that struck so heavy a blow." "But surely she must have suspected---" "She has never suspected anything in her life.

It is a part of her sweetness, you know, that she never faces an unpleasant fact until it is literally thrust on her notice.