CHAPTER XL.
AT THE ROUND TABLE.
Mrs.Dinks had informed Hope that she was going home.

That lady was satisfied, by her conversation with Mrs.Newt, that it would be useless for her to see Mr.Newt--that it was one of the cases in which facts and events plead much more persuasively than words.

She was sure the rich merchant would not allow his daughter to suffer.

Fathers do so in novels, thought she.

Of course they do, for it is necessary to the interest of the story.