I will write to him at once.

I hope that in new surroundings you will forget all these wild ideas and, after your course at college, settle down to be a good and useful man in the walk of life to which you are so clearly called." Godfrey, who on such occasions knew how to be silent, made no answer, although the attack upon Isobel provoked him sorely.

In his heart indeed he reflected that a year's separation from his parent would not be difficult to bear, especially beneath the shadow of the Swiss mountains which secretly he longed to climb.

Also he really wished to acquire French, being a lad with some desire for knowledge and appreciation of its advantages.

So he looked humble merely and took the first opportunity to slip from the presence of the fierce little man with small eyes, straight, sandy hair and a slit where his lips should be, through whose agency, although it was hard to believe it, he had appeared in this disagreeable and yet most interesting world.
In point of fact he had an assignation, of an innocent sort.