I did not tell you then, nor can I tell you all now.

I had thought that I should want my money for another purpose for a year or two; but that I have abandoned." "Is the purpose a secret, Harry ?" "It is a secret, because it concerns another person." "You were going to lend your money to some one ?" "I must keep it a secret, though you know I seldom have any secrets from you.

That idea, however, is abandoned, and I mean to go over to Stratton to-morrow, and tell Mr.Burton that I shall be there after Christmas.

I must be at St.Cuthbert's on Tuesday." Then they both sat silent for a while, silently blowing out their clouds of smoke.

The son had said all that he cared to say, and would have wished that there might then be an end of it; but he knew that his father had much on his mind, and would fain express, if he could express it without too much trouble, or without too evident a need of self-reproach, his own thoughts on the subject.