Midday
And she sank into sensational protests of her anxious care of her daughter , too proud to phrase them . Her one great affliction , the scourging affliction of her utter loneliness ; -- an outcast from her family ; daily , and she knew not how , more shut away from the man she loved ; now shut away from her girl ; -- seemed under the hand of the angel of God . The abandonment of her by friends , was merely the light to show it . Midday 's post brought her a letter from Priscilla Graves , entreating to be allowed to call on her next day . -- We are not so easily cast off ! Nataly said , bitterly , in relation to the lady whose offending had not been so great . She wrote : ` Come , if sure that you sincerely wish to . '