"But why should I not receive her? If only she doesn't take it into her head to console me!" thought Dolly.

" All consolation and counsel and Christian forgiveness, all that I have thought over a thousand times, and it's all no use.

" All these days Dolly had been alone with her children.

She did not want to talk of her sorrow, but with that sorrow in her heart she could not talk of outside matters.