Who is there among us that does not adore his first love and his first poem?
And yet when we see them twenty years after! Presently the Rectory door was opened and Leonard entered.

At this moment it occurred to him that he did not quite know why he had come.

To be altogether accurate, he knew why he had come well enough.

It was to see Jane, and arrive at an understanding with her father.

Perhaps it may be well to explain that his engagement to that young lady was of the suppressed order.