"I asked her, George, before my poor grandfather's death, when I thought that he would linger perhaps for weeks. My life here alone with him, without any other woman in the house beside the servants, was very melancholy."

"I asked her, George, before my poor grandfather's death, when I thought that he might linger for weeks. My life here alone with him, without any other woman in the house beside the servants, was very melancholy."
