I have come back to Ashurst to stay." "Now, my dear," remonstrated the rector when they were in the library, and he had shut the door, "that is really very unwise.

These little affairs, little misunderstandings, are soon cleared up, and they are even forgotten by the people most interested in them.

But outsiders never forget.

So it is very unwise to speak of them." Helen had seated herself on the other side of his writing-table, brushing away the litter of papers and unanswered letters, so that she could lean her elbow on it, and now she looked steadily across at him.
"Uncle," she said, calmly "you do not know.

There is no misunderstanding.
It is just what I told you last night: he thinks it best that I should leave him indefinitely.