There was really no reason why she should not succeed.

There must be a spring somewhere, and if she was as patient as she declared herself to be, she would surely find it sooner or later; that is, if she could carry out her search without exciting suspicion.
The first difficulty was to get her settled at the Hall.

What was the best way to set about that?
It certainly was not as easy as she seemed to think, still there must be some way of managing it.

At any rate he must act cautiously in the matter, and must not appear in it in any way personally.

And so he sat thinking, until at last the clerk, who had been a good deal surprised at receiving no instruction from him as to several matters he had in hand, knocked at the door, and came in with a number of papers, and Mr.Tallboys was obliged to dismiss the matter from his mind for a time, and to attend to present business.
The very next morning Mrs.Conway received the note, and again went to the office.
"Do you know, Mrs.Conway," he began, as soon as his client entered, "the more I think over the matter, the more I feel that it is extremely difficult to manage it from here.