I was the one who had to tell them Rachel's story, as kindly and delicately as I might.

You will be glad, my children, to know that they made very little of their darling's fault.

Mr.Hill was somewhat grave over the matter, but Mrs.
Hill would not allow a word of blame to be uttered against her pet.

She urged, she invented a hundred excuses; good, kind soul.

As for Arthur Noble, he readily discerned love for himself as the cause of her unwilling desertion of others.