"You shall see that I will bring my aunt home to America with me, Captain Lancaster."
"Perhaps so; and yet I think she loves England—as much, I dare say, as you do America."
"I hope not, for what should we do in that case? I have only her, she has only me, and why should we live apart?"
"Do you mean to tell me that you have left behind you no relatives?" he said.
"I told you I had no one but Aunt West," she said, almost curtly.
"And she can scarcely be called your relative. I believe she was only your father's sister-in-law," he said.
"That is true," she replied.
"Then why go to her at all, since the kinship is but in name, and you would be happier in America?" he asked, with something of curiosity.
"Papa wished it," she replied, simply.