Crossword-Solution: EDA 3 letters, 73 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 4

Eda Rawle, Janet's solitary friend of these days, must also be mentioned, though the friendship was merely an episode in Janet's life.

Shivers described it,--or when she felt within her, like demons, those inexpressible longings and desires, leaping and straining, pulling her, almost irresistibly, she knew not whither, Eda shone forth like a light in the darkness, like the beacon of a refuge and a shelter.

Unable to confess the need that drove her, she arrived in Eda's little bedroom to be taken into Eda's arms.

Janet was immeasurably the stronger of the two, but Eda possessed the masculine trait of protectiveness, the universe never bothered her, she was one of those persons--called fortunate--to whom the orthodox Christian virtues come as naturally as sun or air.

Sanctified or unsanctified, Janet regarded it with terror, and whenever Eda innocently broached the subject she recoiled.