text:  The consequence was that in the dread of encountering her sister (whom she felt ashamed to meet as the wife of the man they had so often decried together ) Lady Robert rarely quitted the house; and these two sisters so long the affectionate inmates of the same chamber--the sisters who had wept together over their mother's deathbed--abided within sight of each other's windows yet estranged as with the estrangement of strangers