“There’s something in that, but I can’t accept without knowing my position, and I would not utter a word to disturb my mother till it occurs to her of herself.”
“Now that Frank is better?”
“No. It will all come on her soon enough.”
“Would you stand if she made it right for you?”
“I can’t tell. There would be no punishment so great to my poor Anne as to be dragged into society, and I don’t know how she would bear it, even if she had no scruples. We never thought of anything but settling in Glen Fraser, only I wanted her to know you all. If that poor Cecil only had a child we could be free to go back. Poor Anne!”
“Do you think she is still as homesick as at first?”
“Well, not quite, perhaps; but I never can get to talk to her, and I know it is a terrible sacrifice to her to live here at all, and I won’t have her forced into a style of thing against her conscience. If they come to me, I shall tell them to take Mr. Bowater.”
“Poor Mr. Bowater! He will have little heart.”
“Who else is there? That fellow Moy would like it, I suppose.”
“That fellow Moy may have to change his note,” said Julius. “I think we have the means of clearing Archie, when we can see how to use them.”