But if you're so sure about them, why not let it go at that?
What's the use of fretting ?" "I was not thinking of them--then." As a matter of fact, she had been thinking of her uncle, Elisha Warren.
As the time dragged by, she thought of him more and more--not as the uncouth countryman whose unwelcome presence had been forced into her life; nor as the hypocrite whose insult to her father's memory she never could forgive or whose double-dealing had been, as she thought, revealed; but as the man who, with the choke in his voice and the tears in his eyes, bade her remember that, whenever she needed help, he was ready and glad to give it.
She did not doubt Malcolm's loyalty.

Her brother's hints and insinuations found no echo in her thoughts.

In the note which she had written her fiance she told of the loss of their fortune, though not of her father's shame.

That she could not tell; nor did she ask Malcolm to come to her--her pride would not permit that.

She wrote simply of her great trouble and trusted the rest to him.