In all this Robert Bolton and the old squire acted together, the brother thinking that the position would suit his sister well.

But others among the Boltons,--Mrs Daniel, the London people, and even Mrs.Robert herself,--had thought that the 'young people' had better be further away from the influences or annoyances of Puritan Grange.

Robert, however, had declared that it would be absurd to yield to the temper, and prejudice, and fury--as he called it--of his father's wife.

When this discussion was going on she had absolutely quarrelled with the attorney, and the attorney had made up his mind that she should be--ignored.

And then, too, as Robert explained, it must be for the husband and not for the wife to choose where they would live.