Now, whether there was any disgrace about it Andrew didn't know; and we owe it to that dead woman and to Sylvia to believe it was all right.

You see what I mean, Daniel?
Now that brings me down to what I want you to know.
Somebody has been keeping watch of Sylvia,--Andrew told me that." She was thinking deeply as though pondering just how much more it was necessary to tell him, and before she spoke she picked up the folded paper and read it through carefully.

"When Andrew got this it troubled him a lot: the idea that somebody had an eye on the girl, and took enough interest in her to do this, made him uneasy.

Sylvia never knew anything about it, of course; she doesn't know anything about anything, and she won't ever need to." "As I understand you, Mrs.Owen, you want some friend of hers to be in a position to protect her if any one tries to harm her; you want to shield her from any evil that might follow her from her mother's errors, if they were indeed errors.

We have no right to assume that she had done anything to be ashamed of.