"Still, I should like to see her. You have so few friends here, Margaret."
Margaret felt what was in her mother's thoughts--a tender craving to bespeak the kindness of some woman towards the daughter that might soon be left motherless. But she could not speak.
"Do you think," said Mrs. Hale, after a pause, "that you could go and ask Mrs. Thornton to come and see me? Only once--I don't want to be troublesome."
"I will do anything, if you wish it, mamma--but if--but when Frederick comes----"

I should like to see her. You have so few friends here, Margaret.'
Margaret felt what was in her mother's thoughts - a craving to ask for the kindness of some woman towards the daughter that might so soon be motherless. She could not speak.
'Do you think,' said Mrs. Hale, 'that you could go and ask Mrs. Thornton to come and see me? Only once. I don't want to be troublesome.'
'If you wish it, mamma - but when Frederick comes-'
