It was the first sympathy,
as she considered, that she had met with since she had left
Dykelands, and it atoned in her mind for various little thoughtless
ways of Anne's, which had wounded her in former years, and which she
had not perhaps striven sufficiently to banish from her memory; and
this was a great advantage from this conversation, even if she
derived no further benefit from it.
On her side, Anne had some thoughts of telling Elizabeth what Helen's
feelings really were, in hopes that she might shew a little regard
for them; but, sisterless herself, she thought the bond of sisterhood
too sacred to be rashly interfered with by a stranger's hand;
besides, she considered Helen's complaints as really confidential, if
not expressly so, and resolved to mention them to no one but Lady
Merton, and to limit her attempts at being useful to bringing the two
sisters before each other in their most amiable light, and at any
rate to avoid saying anything that could possibly occasion a
discussion between them, though she could hardly imagine that it was
possible to dislike one of the merry arguments that she delighted in.
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