"I wanted her to have the credit of the sacrifice," he said.
And then: "I don't like leaving you here—"
An awful thought came to her.
"Are you sure you aren't going because of me?"
"You? What on earth are you thinking of?"
"That time—when you wouldn't ask Lindley Vickers to stop on."
"Oh … I didn't ask him because I knew he wanted to stop altogether. And
I don't approve of him."
She turned and stared at him. "Then it wasn't that you didn't approve of me?"
"What put that in your head?"
"Mamma. She told me you couldn't ask anybody again because of me. She said I'd frightened Lindley Vickers away. Like Aunt Charlotte."