Crossword-Solution: WIX 3 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Wix," she added, addressing the figure impatiently and giving the child a push from which Maisie gathered that she wished to set Mrs.

Wix herself always immediately mentioned: she had had a little girl quite of her own, and the little girl had been killed on the spot.

Wix ended by saying, and Maisie, all in a tremor of curiosity and compassion, addressed from that moment a particular piety to the small accepted acquisition.

Wix had accompanied her into the drawing-room and left her, the child heard one of the ladies she found there--a lady with eyebrows arched like skipping-ropes and thick black stitching, like ruled lines for musical notes on beautiful white gloves--announce to another.

Wix's conveying that somehow, in her ugliness and her poverty, she was peculiarly and soothingly safe; safer than any one in the world, than papa, than mamma, than the lady with the arched eyebrows; safer even, though so much less beautiful, than Miss Overmore, on whose loveliness, as she supposed it, the little girl was faintly conscious that one couldn't rest with quite the same tucked-in and kissed-for-good-night feeling.