She detested and feared the man, for reasons of her own, and she found it hard to believe that he could do something 'very, very kind' and yet not wish it to be known.

He did not strike her as being the kind of person who would go out of his way to hide his light under a bushel.

Yet Miss More's tone had been quiet and earnest.

Perhaps he had employed her to teach some poor deaf and dumb child, like little Ida.

Her words seemed to imply this, for she had said that it had been impossible that she should not know; that is, he had been forced to ask her advice or help, and her help and advice could only be considered indispensable where her profession as a teacher of the deaf and dumb was concerned.
Miss More was too discreet to ask the question which Margaret's unfinished sentence suggested, but she would not let the speech pass quite unanswered.
'He is often misjudged,' she said.