"What for?"
"I promised Father I'd go to college."
"It was a foolish promise involving matters over which you had no control."
"I promised him, too, that I'd go away. He didn't wish me to stay here, so far from the world."
"The world!" repeated Amos to his despairing soul. He had read "Evelyn Innes" again and still again; he understood even more clearly what had happened to Evelyn.
"The world will ruin you!" warned Grandfather.
Millie meant to be exonerated. She was frightened—would she be left without Ellen's help? "No sister-in-law was ever kinder than I to Ellen. She has all the say about the house, about planning the work and everything."
"I'm not complaining about you, Millie. Matthew, will you give me a part of my money?"
"It would be against my conscience."
"Grandfather?"