"
"But did she stay crazy?" asked Edith.
"Not wholly so," returned Arthur, "but from that time her reason
began to fail, until now she is hopelessly insane, and has not
known a rational moment for more than three years."
"Nor been home in all that time?" said Edith, while Arthur
replied,
"She would not go. She seemed to shrink from meeting her former
friends; and at last, acting upon Griswold's advice, I placed her
in the Asylum, going myself hither and thither like a feather
tossed about by the gale. Griswold was my ballast, my polar star,
and when he said to me, buy a house and have a home, I answered
that I would; and when he told me of Grassy Spring, bidding me
purchase it, I did so, although I dreaded coming to this
neighborhood of all others. I had carefully kept everything from
Grace, who, while hearing that I was in some way interested in a
Florida estate, knew none of the particulars, and I became
morbidly jealous lest she or anyone else should hear of Nina's
misfortune, or what she was to me.
"It was a favorite idea of Griswold's that Nina might be benefited
by a change of place, and when I first came here I knew that she,
too, would follow me in due time.
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