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CHAPTER '
Though
II.
A WANDERING VOICE.'
sheer
and
not
intelligible griefs are
charmed away by being confided acquaintances, the process certain ill-humours.
A
is
to
mere
a palliative to
species of trouble
which, like a stream, gets shallower by the simple quarter,
operation is
of widening
it
vexation that has for
in
any
its
chief
ingredient perplexity.
On
the evening of the day succeeding
that of the meeting in the Park,
Elfride
and Mrs. Swancourt were engaged
in con-
versation in the dressing-room of the ter.
lat-
Such a treatment of such a case was
in course of adoption here.
Elfride
had just before received an
af-
