'I was very thoughtless and
forgetful, but I hope you will not be angry with me. I will be ever so
fond of her if you will forgive me.'
'Very well,' said Priscilla, smiling; 'on those conditions I will
forgive you.' And from that time there sprang up something like a
feeling of friendship between Priscilla and Mrs Trevelyan. Nevertheless
Priscilla was still of opinion that the Clock House arrangement was
dangerous, and should never have been made; and Mrs Stanbury, always
timid of her own nature, began to fear that it must be so, as soon as
she was removed from the influence of her son. She did not see much
even of the few neighbours who lived around her, but she fancied that
people looked at her in church as though she had done that which she
ought not to have done, in taking herself to a big and comfortable
house for the sake of lending her protection to a lady who was
separated from her husband. It was not that she believed that Mrs
Trevelyan had been wrong; but that, knowing herself to be weak, she
fancied that she and her daughter would be enveloped in the danger and
suspicion which could not but attach themselves to the lady's
condition, instead of raising the lady out of the cloud as would have
been the case had she herself been strong.
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