And there may have been some harsh judgment.

My grandfather may have been misinformed as to some of the facts.

And I--" He hesitated, struck with the awkwardness of what he was going to say.
But Marcella understood him.
"And you will try and make him alter his mind ?" she said, not ungratefully, but still with a touch of sarcasm in her tone.

"No, Mr.
Raeburn, I don't think that will succeed." They walked on in silence for a little while.

At last he said, turning upon her a face in which she could not but see the true feeling of a just and kindly man-- "I meant that if my grandfather could be led to express himself in a way which Mr.Boyce could accept, even if there were no great friendship as there used to be, there might be something better than this--this, which--which--is so painful.