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Geraldine.
Once, and once only, had she returned to her native land, and that two
or three years before our story opens. Then she had been absent three or
four months, and when she returned to Allington, she seemed grimmer and
sterner than ever, and more intolerant of everything which did not savor
of the "naked truth." And yet, as Lucy Grey had said of her to her
sister, she was true as steel to her friends, and at heart was one of
the kindest and best of women, and, with the exception of Miss Lucy
Grey, no one in Allington was found so often in the houses of the poor
as she, and though she rebuked sharply when it was necessary, and told
them they were dirty and shiftless when they were, she made her kindness
felt in so many ways that she was, if possible, more popular than Lucy
herself, for, while Lucy only gave them money and sympathy, she helped
them with her hands, and, if necessary, swept their floors, and washed
their faces, and made their beds, and sometimes took their children home
and kept them with her for days.


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