"Oh, dear papa! Forgive me this once. How can you understand it when you shut your heart against the Love that left heaven for you?"
She was crying bitterly; and by the time she had dried her eyes and could see again, her father had left the room.
[CHAPTER XII.]
HOW THE BAG WAS EMPTIED.
WHEN Aymer returned from this, the first journey he had ever taken, he made Helen laugh (though she was in no laughing mood, for she missed Clarice unspeakably) by his description of Tom Price's face when he marched into Guy's room and found them at tea.
HE FOUND THEM AT TEA.