Ever since her declaration to her uncle during their walk yesterday this new picture of her father had grown before her eyes.

She had already forgotten many, many things that might now have made her resentful or at least critical.

She saw him as a figure most disastrously misunderstood.

Without any sentimentality in her vision she saw him lonely, proud, reserved, longing for her sympathy which she denied him.

His greed for money she saw suddenly as a determination that his daughter should not be left in want.