"I don't know," said he; "I don't know—it ought to be helped somehow—I am quite sure you have not been to blame."
"No," said she, very quietly, as though the position was one quite a matter of course. "I don't think I have been very much to blame. There will be misfortunes sometimes when nobody is to blame."
"I do not quite understand it all," said the squire; "but if Frank—"
"Oh! we will not talk about him," said she, still laughing gently.
"You can understand, Mary, how dear he must be to me; but if—"
"Mr Gresham, I would not for worlds be the cause of any unpleasantness between you and him."
"But I cannot bear to think that we have banished you, Mary."
"It cannot be helped. Things will all come right in time."
"But you will be so lonely here."
"Oh! I shall get over all that. Here, you know, Mr Gresham, 'I am monarch of all I survey;' and there is a great deal in that."