Now you have come--now she has seen you it would KILL her if you were driven away and thought she wanted you to go." "I shall not think that," she answered, slowly, because she realised that it was well that she had been warned in time.

"Ughtred, are you trying to tell me that above all things I must not let him think that I came here to help you, because if he is angry he will make us all suffer--and your mother most of all ?" "He'll find a way.

We always know he will.

He would either be so rude that you would not stay here--or he would make mother seem rude--or he would write lies to grandfather.

Aunt Betty, she scarcely believes you are real yet.