"Your affectionate niece,
"HELEN LE MESURIER.
"P.S.—We can easily accommodate your servant."
"OSBORNE HOUSE, LANCASTER GATE,
"July 14, 19—.
"MY DEAR HELEN,
"I must not grumble at your decision. I will think over the proposal you make, that I should come down to Hazelhurst to stay a while. In the meantime send the girl on Friday next, if convenient to you. The carriage shall meet the train.
"Your affectionate uncle
"PERCIVAL DESBOROUGH.'
When Hazel heard she was asked to go and see her uncle again, she was half pleased, half dismayed. The plan she was evolving for helping Teddie was at once made simpler: for it was to Uncle Percival that she was about to turn for aid, if she could sufficiently crush down her pride. The very difficulty of getting to him, had made her plan seem easy and feasible. But now that this difficulty was removed, she found her little scheme of a sudden assume terrible proportions. However, there was no harm in going: there was nothing infra dig. or humiliating in that; and once there, she could feel her way as to what she should confide and what leave unsaid.