She'd quarrelled with Mrs.Tubbs.I urged her to come home, but she wouldn't listen to me.

This morning I've been to try and see her again, but they tell me she went away yesterday afternoon.
I can't find where she's living now.' Hewett took a step forward.

His face was so distorted, so fierce, that Sidney involuntarily raised an arm, as if to defend himself.
'An' it's you as comes tellin' me this!' John exclaimed, a note of anguish blending with his fury.

'You have the face to stand there an' speak like that to me, when you know it's all your own doing! Who was the cause as the girl went away from 'ome?
Who was it, I say?
Haven't been as friendly as we used to be, haven't we?
An' why?
Haven't I seen it plainer an' plainer what you was thinkin' when you told me to let her have her own way?
I spoke the truth then--'cause I felt it; an' I was fool enough, for all that, to try an' believe I was in the wrong.
Now you come an' stand before me--why, I couldn't a' thought there was a man had so little shame in him!' Mrs.Hewett entered the room; the loud angry voice had reached her ears, and in spite of terror she came to interpose between the two men.
'Do you know what he's come to tell me ?' cried her husband.

'Oh, you do! He's been tryin' to talk you over, has he?
You just answer to me, an' tell the truth.