"But are you not so in the Punch-Bowl?"
"No. I am very miserable. But I will not return there again."
"What! fallen out with the Squire?"
"He has made it impossible for me to go back."
"Then whither are you bound?"
"I do not know."
He looked at her intently.
"Now, see here," said he. "Sit down on that log again from which you have risen and tell me all. I am a lawyer and can help you, I daresay."
"I have not much to tell," she answered, and sank on the tree bole.
He seated himself beside her.
"There are things that have happened which have made me resolve to go anywhere, do anything, rather than return to Jonas. I promised what I could not keep when I said I would love, honor, and obey him."