She was too frail to be angry with, and then she was right about his being the cause of her suffering--the first cause of it, at least.

He had not yet arrived at the point where he censured himself for all that had happened.

In fact since Harry's sudden exit, made without a word to anybody at Moorlands except his mother and Alec, who went to town on a hurry message,--a slight which cut him to the quick--he had steadily laid the blame on everybody else connected with the affair;--generally on St.George for his interference in his peace-making programme at the club and his refusal, when ruined financially, to send the boy back to him in an humble and contrite spirit.

Neither had he recovered from the wrath he had felt when, having sent John Gorsuch to ascertain from St.George the amount of money he had paid out for his son, Temple had politely sent Gorsuch, in charge of Todd, downstairs to Pawson, who in turn, after listening to Todd's whispered message, had with equal politeness shown Gorsuch the door, the colonel's signed check--the amount unfilled--still in Gorsuch's pocket.
It was only when the Lord of Moorlands went into town to spend an hour or so with Kate--and he was a frequent visitor prior to his accident--that his old manner returned.

He loved the girl dearly and was never tired of talking to her.