Will you try to alter it?
I don't mind what Mr.Clare says; he believes in nothing.

But I attach a very serious importance to what _you_ say; and, kind as I know your motives to be, it distresses me to think you are doing Magdalen an injustice.
"Having relieved my mind of this confession, I may now come to the proper object of my letter.

I promised, if you could not find leisure time to visit us to-day, to write and tell you all that happened after you left us.

The day has passed without our seeing you.

So I open my writing-case and perform my promise.
"I am sorry to say that three of the women-servants--the house-maid, the kitchen-maid, and even our own maid (to whom I am sure we have always been kind)--took advantage of your having paid them their wages to pack up and go as soon as your back was turned.