If I am to act honestly, I know very well what I must do.

I will take your advice." Hilliard could not doubt of her meaning.

He remembered his last talk with Patty.

This was a declaration he had not foreseen, and it affected him otherwise than he could have anticipated.
"My advice had nothing to do with _that_," was his answer, as he read her face.

"But I shall say not a word against it.