Excerpt from The Woman's Kingdom: A Love Story<br><br>Edna spoke in the soothing yet cheerful tone which all people - that is, people like Edna Kenderdine - instinctive ly use towards an invalid; and, laying down her work she rarely was without some sort of work in her tiny hands - looked tenderly and anxiously at her sister. For they were twin-sisters; though, as sometimes happens with twins, so excessively unlike that they would scarcely have been supposed akin at all.<br><br>You know, Letty dear, that as soon as you began to get better the Isle of Wight was the place you fancied for a change.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.