One can never rely on doctors, you know." "But what became of the girl--of Janet Merryweather, I mean ?" "That was the sad part, though it happened so long ago--twenty years--that people have almost forgotten.

It seems that your uncle had been desperate about her for a time--before Angela came to live with him--and Janet counted rather recklessly upon his keeping his word and marrying her as he had promised.

When her trouble came she went quite out of her mind--perfectly harmless, I believe, and with lucid intervals in which she suffered from terrible melancholia.

Her child inherits many of her characteristics, I am told, though I've never heard any harm of the girl except that she flirts with all the clowns in the neighbourhood." "Uncle Jonathan appears to have been too ready with his promises, but, I suppose, he thought there was a difference between his obligation to Janet Merryweather and to his brother's widow ?" "There was a difference, of course.

Janet Merryweather could hardly have had Angela's sensitive feelings--or at least it's a comfort to think that, even if it happens not to be true.