"What is strange about poor Margaret?"
"That you should be happy and that she ... should so suffer."
"Yes, every thing is strange in this world," Grace answered; "at least we think so."
"I am sure, sometimes, you must feel it all very much, though you look as though care and trouble had never touched you."
"Do you count that to me as a crime?" Grace asked in a peculiar tone.
"I sometimes wonder if you ever blame yourself." Mrs. Dorriman's tone was, for her, severe.
"I suppose we all do at times."
"Well, it seems hard."
"That we should blame ourselves?"
"You know I do not mean that."