Volume Three—Chapter Twenty One.
Leslie Makes an Announcement.
It was a week before the London doctor said that Louise Vine might undertake the journey down home, but when it was talked of she looked up at her father in a troubled way.
“It would be better, my darling,” he whispered. “You shrink from going back to the old place. Why should you, where there will be nothing but love and commiseration?”
“It is not that,” she said sadly. “Harry!”
“Yes! But we can do no more by staying here.”
“Not a bit,” said Uncle Luke. “Let’s get down to the old sea-shore again, Louie. If we stop here much longer I shall die. Harry’s safe enough somewhere. Let’s go home.”
Louise made no more opposition, and it was decided that they should start at once, but the journey had to be deferred on account of business connected with Pradelle’s examination.