' She did
all she could to spend her energy on her cooking and cleaning, but
'there was no satisfaction in it,' and she became much depressed,
especially after the child died. This was the main reason why Mrs
Caffyn determined to live with her. Marshall was glad she resolved
to come. His wife had her full share of the common sense he desired,
but the experiment had not altogether succeeded. He knew she was
lonely, and he was sorry for her, although he did not see how he
could mend matters. He reflected carefully, nothing had happened
which was a surprise to him, the relationship was what he had
supposed it would be, excepting that the child did not live and its
mother was a little miserable. There was nothing he would not do for
her, but he really had nothing more to offer her.
Although Mrs Marshall had made up her mind that husbands and wives
could not be as contented with one another in the big city as they
would be in a village, a suspicion crossed her mind one day that,
even in London, the relationship might be different from her own.
She was returning from Great Oakhurst after a visit to her mother.
She had stayed there for about a month after her child's death, and
she travelled back to town with a Letherhead woman, who had married a
journeyman tanner, who formerly worked in the Letherhead tan-yard,
and had now moved to Bermondsey, a horrid hole, worse than Great
Ormond Street.
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