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'If we had done that she would have been as bad then as she is now.'
'Mother, we had no business to meddle either with her badness or her
goodness. What had we to do with the wife of such a one as Mr
Trevelyan, or with any woman who was separated from her husband?'
'It was Hugh who thought we should be of service to them.'
'Yes and I do not blame him. He is in a position to be of service to
people. He can do work and earn money, and has a right to think and to
speak. We have a right to think only for ourselves, and we should not
have yielded to him. How are we to get back again out of this house to
our cottage?'
'They are pulling the cottage down, Priscilla.'
'To some other cottage, mother. Do you not feel while we are living
here that we are pretending to be what we are not? After all, Aunt
Stanbury was right, though it was not her business to meddle with us.
We should never have come here. That poor woman now regards us as her
bitter enemies.'
'I meant to do for the best,' said Mrs Stanbury.


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