"Never since we have been back in England."
"You must promise me that you will not write."
She paused a moment before she answered him, and now she was looking him full in the face. "I shall not write to him. I do not think I shall write to him; but I will not promise."
"Not promise me,—your father!"
"No, papa. It might be that—that I should do it."
"You would not wish me so to guard you that you should have no power of sending a letter but by permission?"
"I should not like that."
"But it will have to be so."
"If I do write I will tell you."
"And show me what you write?"