There are so many reasons why Alma will be happier there, at first, than in London.

I don't know whether that place in North Wales would be quite--but I mustn't meddle with what doesn't concern me.

And you will be thoroughly independent; at any moment you can make a change.' To a suggestion that she should run down into Carnarvonshire, and see her proposed home before any practical step was taken, Alma replied that she had complete faith in Harvey Rolfe's judgment.

Harvey's only doubt was as to the possibility of finding a house.

He made the journey himself, and after a few days' absence returned with no very hopeful report; at present there was nothing to be had but a cottage, literally a cotter's home, and this would not do.