What other people may think of the rightness or wrongness is nothing in comparison to my own deep knowledge, my innate conviction that it was wrong.

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.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Margaret was not a ready lover, but where she loved she loved passionately, and with no small degree of jealousy.

Come! Poor little heart! Be cheery and brave. We'll be a great deal to one another, if we are thrown off and left desolate.

Miss Jenkyns wore a cravat, and a little bonnet like a jockey-cap, and altogether had the appearance of a strong-minded woman; although she would have despised the modern idea of women being equal to men. Equal, indeed! she knew they were superior.

Of all faults the one she most despised in others was the want of bravery; the meanness of heart which leads to untruth.