[The Girl From Keller’s by Harold Bindloss]@TWC D-Link bookThe Girl From Keller’s CHAPTER X 18/22
"You must know what you decide.
I must live in Canada; my homestead may seem rude and bare after your mother's beautiful house, and I tried to show you what a prairie farm is like." "I think I know," Helen said, and gave him a quick tender look.
"Still, such things don't really matter----" Then Festing stepped forward and took her in his arms. An hour later he sat talking to Mrs.Dalton and Miss Graham in the drawing-room. "I am glad you have agreed to wait and come back for Helen in the spring, but I ought to tell you something now, because it may make a difference in your plans," Mrs.Dalton remarked "You admitted that some of the difficulties you and Helen would have to meet might be avoided if you had a little more capital." "It would certainly make a difference, but I have got no more." "Helen has some money," Mrs.Dalton replied. Festing knitted his brows.
"I didn't suspect this!" "That is obvious," Miss Graham interposed. Festing got up, moved a pace or two, and stopped.
"How much has she got ?" Mrs.Dalton told him and he frowned.
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