Jealousy?
No.
Some insult offered her?
No.

Larry went through the category of ordinary motives, of possible happenings; but he could find none which would reconcile her very keen and kindly feeling for Hunt with her abstinence from all inquiries.
From his first day in his sanctuary Larry spent long hours every day over the accounts and documents Miss Sherwood had put in his hands.

They were indeed a tangle.

Originally the Sherwood estate had consisted of solid real-estate holdings.

But now that Larry had before him the records of holdings and of various dealings he learned that the character of the Sherwood fortune had altered greatly.