It's her basis of
departure to pack her trunk from, that's all your home means to her.
She's never lifted a finger to be useful beyond rearranging the
furniture in a different way from what you'd arranged it. She acts
exactly as if she were a young lady boarder. She's nothing whatever to
do in this world except make trouble for others. I think Cyrus should
know, and then if he prefers his sister's convenience to his wife's
happiness, well and good!" It's not often I speak out, but now and then
things happen which I can't very well keep silent about. It did me good
to ease my mind about Elizabeth Talbert for once.
Ada only said, "Elizabeth and I have always been such good friends, and
she's so fond of Peggy."
Ada doesn't realize that with some women vanity is stronger than
loyalty. She kissed me. "It's done me good to talk to you, mother," she
said, "because now it doesn't seem, when I put it outside myself, that
there's very much of anything to worry about."
Ada has always been like that--she seems to get rid of her troubles
just by telling them. Now she had passed her riddle on to me, and I
could not keep Peggy and her affairs from my mind. I tried to tell
myself that it would be better for every one to find out now than later
if Henry Goward was not worthy to be Peggy's husband.
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