"I want to use it myself," said Jane. "It's not a bit too much."
"I didn't mean it."
She added softly, reminiscently. "She was such a little thing."
"Much too little for you to care about."
"That's why I cared. I know it was. She was just like a little, lonely child; and she clung to me at first."
"She certainly seems to have clung."
"That's why it's so awful to think that she couldn't bear it—couldn't bear to live with me."
"We wondered how you could bear to live with her."
"Did you?"
"Yes. Why did you have her?"