Oh, Paul! think of what I have suffered these past weeks, and pity me a little! "You will understand now why it was that I could not bear to have the circumstances of the fraud we had practised on you alluded to in my presence, and why, after the first few days, I never spoke of them myself.
"When father, whom you know as Dr.Hull, came that day to see how the plot was succeeding, I thought I should die with shame.

He tried to catch my eye, and to get a chance to speak with me, but I avoided him.

He must have gone away very much puzzled by my conduct, for it had been arranged between us that he should come.

By that time, you see, I had become heart-sick of the part I was playing.
"But, Paul, you must not think that it was mere sham, father's drawing you out so much to talk at the table that night, and pretending to be so much taken up with what you said.

He is great for being taken up with new ideas, and I think his interest was quite genuine.