Step by step she got the woman to admit certain facts, of which the logical connexion and sequence was perfectly clear to Margaret; but at the end, the bewildered woman simply repeated her first assertion, namely, that "it were very cruel for sure, and she should not like to do it; but that there was nothing like it for giving a person what they wished for; she had heard it all her life; but it were very cruel for all that." 
The bewildered woman simply repeated that 'it were very cruel for sure, but there were nothing like it for giving a person what they wished for; she had heard it all her life.' 