She always set to work on it at depressed moments, and now she knitted at it nervously, twitching her fingers and counting the stitches.

Though she had sent word the day before to her husband that it was nothing to her whether his sister came or not, she had made everything ready for her arrival, and was expecting her sister-in-law with emotion.

Dolly was crushed by her sorrow, utterly swallowed up by it.

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