CHAPTER VIII.
"I have lost a beautiful girl, an excellent social position, and a handsome income," Mr.Godfrey began; "and I have submitted to it without a struggle.

What can be the motive for such extraordinary conduct as that?
My precious friend, there is no motive." "No motive ?" I repeated.
"Let me appeal, my dear Miss Clack, to your experience of children," he went on.

"A child pursues a certain course of conduct.

You are greatly struck by it, and you attempt to get at the motive.

The dear little thing is incapable of telling you its motive.