“What will they say?”
“That I drove you from home.”
“It won't be true. I don't pretend to enjoy my home, but I suppose I can stay on here if I like?”
“Yes, you can stay.”
“You don't object to my going?”
“No, if it is understood that you go of your own accord.”
“I am willing enough to take the blame of it, if there is any blame.”
“Very well; get a sheet of note-paper, and write at my direction.”
Phil took a sheet of note-paper from his father's desk, and sat down to comply with Mrs. Brent's request.
She dictated as follows: