How we cite our quotes: (Volume.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
"It hurt her to see Helstone road so flooded in the sun-light, and every turn and every familiar tree so precisely the same in its summer glory as it had been in former years. Nature felt no change, and was ever young." (2.21.1)
When she finally returns to her home in Helstone, Margaret is trouble by two things: how much the place has changed and how much it hasn't. Nature, on the one hand, hasn't changed at all. But some of the people Margaret used to know are now dead, including her mother and father, and it's sad to think that her old home is now barely recognizable.