She saw it did not, and thought once to tell him frankly all she feared, but was deterred from doing so by a feeling that possibly she might be wrong in her conjectures.

Adah's presence at Terrace Hill would set that matter right, and she asked if Hugh did not think it best for her to go.
Hugh could only talk in a straightforward manner, and after a moment he answered: "Yes, best on some accounts.

Her going may do good and prevent a wrong.
Yes, Adah may go." He continued: "she surely cannot go alone.

Would Sam do?
I hear her now.
Call her while I talk with her." Adah came at once, and heard from Hugh that he was willing she should go, provided Spring Bank were still considered her home, the spot to which she could always turn for shelter as to a brother's house.
"You seem so like a sister," he said, smoothing her soft brown hair, "that I shall be sorry to lose you, and shall miss you so much, but Miss Johnson thinks it right for you to go.

Will you take Sam as an escort ?" "Oh, no, no; I don't want anybody," Adah cried, "Keep Sam with you, and if in time I should earn enough to buy him, to free him.