“Because you don’t believe me, sir, and she won’t, and—and—you had better send me back.”
“I am waiting to see you here, Dexter,” said Helen gravely, and the boy started away with a cry, for the drawing-room door had opened silently, and Helen was standing on the mat.
Chapter Forty One.
How the Doctor punished.
Dexter’s interview with Helen was long and painful, for at first it seemed as if she had lost all confidence and hope in the boy, till, realising all this, he cried in a wild outburst of grief—“I know how wrong it all was, but nearly everybody here seemed to dislike me, and I did tell the truth about the boat, but no one believes. Do—do ask him to send me away.”
There was a long silence here, as, for the first time, in spite of a hard fight, Dexter could not keep back his tears.
The silence was broken by Helen, who took his hand, and said gently—
“I believe you, Dexter. I am sure you would not tell a lie.”