"She is brave enough to give me her hearty sympathy.

But perhaps for that very reason I ought to be the more chary in endangering the only support that she is like to have.

What is ninety pounds a year for the maintenance of a single lady ?" "I hope that Kate will always live with me," said Alice; "that is, as soon as she has lost her home at Vavasor Hall." He had been very crafty and had laid a trap for her.

He had laid a trap for her, and she had fallen into it.

She had determined not to be induced to talk of herself; but he had brought the thing round so cunningly that the words were out of her mouth before she remembered whither they would lead her.