Oh, it is quite evident what he means.

They were here without moving all through June and July, and it is now three weeks at least since he and Miss Raeburn came back from Scotland, and not a card nor a word from either of them! Nor from the Winterbournes, nor the Levens.

Pleasant! Well, my dear, you must make up your mind to it.

I did think--I was fool enough to think--that when I came back to the old place, my father's old friends would let bygones be bygones.

I never did _them_ any harm.