If she must go, there was something which she must do first,--something which for three years she had shrunk from doing.

So she told Robert Grant Burns that she would meet him and his company in Helena, and without a word of explanation, she left two days in advance of them, just after she had had another maddening talk with her Uncle Carl, wherein she had repeated her intention of employing a lawyer.
When she boarded the train at Helena, she did not tell even Lite just where she had been or what she had been doing.

She did not need to tell Lite.

He looked into her face and saw there the shadow of the high, stone wall that shut her dad away from the world, and he did not ask a single question..