Your retirement is very natural, and proper, and beautiful, under the circumstances, although it is unusual.

Of course I don't fully understand.

But I have perfect confidence in the justice of your reasons." Mrs.Dinks looked at Hope tenderly and sagaciously as she said this, and smiled meaningly.
Hope was entirely bewildered.

Then a sudden apprehension shot through her mind as she thought of what her aunt had said.

She asked suddenly and a little proudly, "What do you mean by 'circumstances,' aunt ?" Mrs.Dinks was uneasy in her turn.