"And yet perhaps it is well that there should be no misunderstanding between us."
"Of course I must tell my brother."
He paused but for a moment, and then he answered her with a sharp voice, "He has been told."
"And who told him?"
"I did. I wrote to him the moment that I knew my own mind. I owed it to him to do so. But my letter missed him, and he only learned it the other day."
"Have you seen him since?"
"Yes;—I have seen him."
"And what did he say? How did he take it? Did he bear it from you quietly?"
"No, indeed;" and Phineas smiled as he spoke.
"Tell me, Mr. Finn; what happened? What is to be done?"