He saw Miss Garth and me, but not Magdalen; and he told us he would take the necessary measures, with your assistance, for having his son properly looked after in London, and seen safely on board the vessel when the time came.

It was a short visit, and a sad leave-taking.

Even Mr.Clare was sorry, though he tried hard to hide it.
"We had barely two hours, after Mr.Clare had left us, before it would be time to go.

I went back to Magdalen, and found her quieter and better, though terribly pale and exhausted, and oppressed, as I fancied, by thoughts which she could not prevail on herself to communicate.
She would tell me nothing then--she has told me nothing since--of what passed between herself and Francis Clare.

When I spoke of him angrily (feeling as I did that he had distressed and tortured her, when she ought to have had all the encouragement and comfort from him that man could give), she refused to hear me: she made the kindest allowances and the sweetest excuses for him, and laid all the blame of the dreadful state in which I had found her entirely on herself.