An Old Chester Secret — Margaret Deland / Margaret Wade Campbell Deland

" ...]character. She said, "He's got to know or I won't help you." Mary's recoil showed how completely, poor child she had always had her own way; to be crossed now by this timid old maid was like going head-on into a gray mist and finding it a stone wall. There was a tingling silence. "Then I'll kill myself," she said. Miss Lydia gripped her small, work-worn hands together, but said nothing. "Oh, please help me " Mary said. ...]."