Anyhow, she promised to go round to Sandy Hollow the next day and give the old lady a full description of Leah, and if possible to arrange a meeting." "I think it a very good idea," chimed in Dinah, her soft voice breaking the silence for the first time--she was always willing to leave the conversation in Elizabeth's hands.

"Miss Jacobi seems very willing to do anything, poor thing, that will make her independent of her brother." "Yes, indeed, she is terribly afraid of him," returned Elizabeth.

"She has reason to dread his violence, I can see that.

Once or twice he has treated her with absolute cruelty, but then she owned he had been drinking.

You see," appealing to Malcolm, "it would be such a relief to us all to know she was abroad, and in such kind hands; and then, as Mrs.Godfrey says, she is so exactly fitted for the post.