Can't we do anything before that ?" Ned was silent.
"I do not want you to tell me, Ned, anything that happens at home--God forbid that I should pry into matters so sacred as relations between a boy and a parent!--but I can see, my boy, that something is wrong.

You are not yourself.

At first when you came back I thought all was well with you; you were, as was natural, sad and depressed, but I should not wish it otherwise.

But of late a change has come ever you; you are nervous and excited; you have gone down in your class, not, I can see, because you have neglected your work, but because you cannot bring your mind to bear upon it.

Now all this must have a cause.