He has been nice enough to me because I have promised to look after you.

Does he want me to marry you, I wonder?
I don't think that it would be very difficult." Virginia blushed, and moved uneasily in her chair.
"Please don't," she begged.

"I do not wish to think of anything of the sort.

My uncle says that presently I am to help him." "To help him," Mrs.Trevor Harrison repeated thoughtfully.
Virginia nodded.
"Yes! I don't exactly know how, but that is what he said." Her chaperon looked thoughtful for a moment.

So there was a motive somewhere, then! But, after all, what concern was it of hers?
She was an old friend of the Duge family, and Phineas Duge had made it very well worth her while to look after his niece.
They were interrupted by some callers.