_Idle_ she never was in any place, but of the multitude of small talks, plans, duties, pleasures, &c., that make up most people's days, her home life was nearly destitute.

This made it possible for her to go through long and deep histories of feeling and imagination, for which others, odd as it sounds, have rarely time.

This made it inevitable that--later on, in her too short career--the intensity of her feeling should wear out her physical health.

The habit of "making out," which had grown with her growth, and strengthened with her strength, had become a part of her nature.

Yet all exercise of her strongest and most characteristic faculties was now out of the question.