'Young people, I fancy, are often subject to such maladies.'
'It must come from something wrong.'
'That may be said of all sickness.'
'And therefore one tries to find out the cause. She says that she
is unhappy.' These last words he spoke slowly and in a low voice.
To this Mrs Finn could make no reply. She did not doubt but that
the girl was unhappy, and she knew well why; but the source of
Lady Mary's misery was one to which she could not very well
allude. 'You know all the misery about that young man.'
'That is a trouble that requires time to cure it,' she said,--not
meaning to imply that time would cure it by enabling the girl to
forget her lover; but because in truth she had not known what else
to say.
'If time will cure it.'
'Time, they say, cures all sorrows.'
'But what should I do to help time? There is no sacrifice I would
not make,--no sacrifice! Of myself I mean. I would devote myself
to her,--leave everything else on one side. We purpose being back
in England in October; but I would remain here if I thought it
better for her comfort.
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