He knew what I had done and why, and he was bound to tell me in order that I might have an opportunity of setting myself right with the Duke.

Then I wrote and explained everything,--how you had told me of the engagement, and how I had then urged Mr.Tregear that he should not keep such a matter secret from your father.

In answer to my letter I have received--that." "Shall I write and tell papa ?" "He should be made to understand that from the moment in which I heard of the engagement I was urgent with you and with Mr.Tregear that he should be informed of it.

You will remember what passed." "I remember it all." "I did not conceive it to be my duty to tell the Duke myself, but I did conceive it to be my duty to see he should be told.

Now he writes as though I had known the secret from the first, and as though I had been concealing it from him at the very moment in which he was asking me to remain at Matching on your behalf.