She was well aware that some catastrophe was about to happen to her father. Catastrophes had happened before, and she had been conscious of their coming. But now the blow would be a very heavy blow. They would again be driven to pack up and move and seek some other city,--probably in some very distant part. But go where she might, she would now be her own mistress. That was the one resolution she succeeded in forming before she re-entered the house in Bruton Street.
She was well aware that some catastrophe was about to happen to her father. Catastrophes had happened before. But this blow would be a very heavy blow. They would need to pack up and move to some other, distant city. But go where she might, she would now be her own mistress. That was the one resolution she formed before she re-entered the house in Bruton Street.