This discovery, suddenly throwing light on all those families of one or two children, which had hitherto been so incomprehensible to her, aroused so many ideas, reflections, and contradictory emotions, that she had nothing to say, and simply gazed with wide-open eyes of wonder at Anna.

This was the very thing she had been dreaming of, but now learning that it was possible, she was horrified.

She felt that it was too simple a solution of too complicated a problem.