MRS.

PRESTON'S INTENTIONS Godfrey returned home on the day after his father's death.

He had never witnessed death before, and it frightened him, for the time, into propriety.

He exhibited none of the stormy and impetuous grief which a warm-hearted and affectionate boy would have been likely to exhibit.

It was not in his nature.
When he and his mother were left alone, he showed his resemblance to her, by asking: "Do you know how much property father left ?" "I don't know.