He did not say _why_ he had offered to do this; that his debts had become so pressing he was afraid to show himself longer in London.

Such facts were not for the ear of that fair girl, who trusted him as the truest man she knew under heaven.
"What have you been doing, Anne ?" He pointed to the maps, and Miss Ashton laughed.
"Mrs.Graves was here yesterday; she is very clever, you know; and when something was being said about the course of ships out of England, I made some dreadful mistakes.

She took me up sharply, and papa looked at me sharply--and the result is, I have to do a heap of maps.

Please tell me if it's right, Percival ?" She held up her pencilled work of the morning.

He was laughing.
"What mistakes did you make, Anne ?" "I am not sure but I said something about an Indiaman, leaving the London Docks, having to pass Scarborough," she returned demurely.