"I am not penniless, no. I didn't walk all the way here, either, I rode in a coach until I couldn't stand the smell of other people. The house was just finished, I sold it already. I'm hardly destitute." Harold would never have left her in the poorhouse. "I just... couldn't.... look at it. I couldn't be there by myself. It was too quiet, too devoid of laughter and joy."