I'd like to be able to say, James Penhallow, that I don't know why he went away--" "We will not talk of it, Ellen," said the Squire, with some sense of relief at the loss of need to do what he had felt to be a duty.

"Come near to the fire," he added.
"No, I want to go home.

I had to tell you.

I just want to be alone.
I'd have given it to him if he had asked me.

I don't mind his taking the money, but he took it out of my Bible.