Margaret found that the indifferent, careless conversations of one who, however kind, was not too warm and anxious a sympathizer, did her good.

I wanted to see the place where Margaret grew to what she is, even at the worst time of all, when I had no hope of ever calling her mine.

But I was right. I think that must be an hereditary quality, for my father says he is scarcely ever wrong.

It is the first changes among familiar things that make such a mystery of time to the young; afterwards we lose the sense of the mysterious. I take changes in all I see as a matter of course. The instability of all human things is familiar to me, to you it is new and oppressive." (Mr. Bell)

She never called her son by any name but John; 'love' and 'dear', and such like terms, were reserved for Fanny.

Take care. -If you do not speak- I shall claim you as my own in some presumptuous way. -Send me away at once, if I must go; -Margaret!-

Wearily she went to bed, wearily she arose in four or five hours' time. But with the morning came hope, and a brighter view of things.