Poor Miss Mary Wadsmith did not know the strong resolve Anna had made
to live apart from her when this new household should be formed. Anna
found it very hard to speak to her Miss Mary of this change.
The preparations for the wedding went on day and night.
Anna worked and sewed hard to make it all go well.
Miss Mary was much fluttered, but content and happy with Anna to make
everything so easy for them all.
Anna worked so all the time to drown her sorrow and her conscience
too, for somehow it was not right to leave Miss Mary so. But what else
could she do? She could not live as her Miss Mary's girl, in a house
where Miss Jane would be the head.
The wedding day grew always nearer. At last it came and passed.
The young people went on their wedding trip, and Anna and Miss Mary
were left behind to pack up all the things.
Even yet poor Anna had not had the strength to tell Miss Mary her
resolve, but now it had to be.
Anna every spare minute ran to her friend Mrs. Lehntman for comfort
and advice. She begged her friend to be with her when she told the
news to Miss Mary.
Perhaps if Mrs. Lehntman had not been in Bridgepoint, Anna would have
tried to live in the new house. Mrs. Lehntman did not urge her to this
thing nor even give her this advice, but feeling for Mrs. Lehntman as
she did made even faithful Anna not quite so strong in her dependence
on Miss Mary's need as she would otherwise have been.
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