I'm sorry for it.

I wish I had found some way of supporting myself.

The end of mother's life was made far more unhappy than it need have been.

I should like you to understand all this.' The listener kept her eyes on the ground.
'Perhaps the girls have hinted it to you ?' Jasper added.
'No.' 'Selfishness--that's one of my faults.

It isn't a brutal kind of selfishness; the thought of it often enough troubles me.