I am extremely desirous to keep her history secret, but I already find it difficult to answer questions without resorting to falsehood, which is a practice exceedingly abhorrent to me, and a very bad education for her.

After this meeting with Mr.Fitzgerald, I cannot take her to any public place without a constant feeling of uneasiness.

The fact is, I am so unused to intrigues and mysteries, and I find it so hard to realize that a young girl like her _can_ be in such a position, that I am bewildered, and need time to settle my thoughts upon a rational basis." "Such a responsibility is so new to you, so entirely foreign to your habits, that it must necessarily be perplexing," replied her visitor.
"I would advise you to go abroad for a while.

Mrs.Percival and I intend to sail for Europe soon, and if you will join us we shall consider ourselves fortunate." "I accept the offer thankfully," said the lady.

"It will help me out of a present difficulty in the very way I was wishing for." When the arrangement was explained to Flora, with a caution not to go in the streets, or show herself at the windows meanwhile, she made no objection.