Then he took off his overcoat and wrapped it round her shoulders.
All this while Jane had not spoken.

Indeed, the poor girl felt so happy and so safe in her lover's arms that it seemed to her as though she never wished to speak, or to do anything for herself again.

It was Leonard who broke the silence.
"You ask me why I left without saying good-bye to you, Jane.

It was because your father has dismissed me from the house and forbidden me to have any more to do with you." "Oh, why ?" asked the girl, lifting her hands despairingly.
"Can't you guess ?" he answered with a bitter laugh.
"Yes, Leonard," she whispered, taking his hand in sympathy.
"Perhaps I had better put it plainly," said Leonard again; "it may prevent misunderstandings.

Your father has dismissed me because _my_ father embezzled all my money.