What did it mean?
Was Flora going to be taken to her father; or were these people, that woman and her horrible nephew, about to carry her off somewhere?
Fyne couldn't tell.

He doubted the last, Flora having now, he judged, no value, either positive or speculative.

Though no great reader of character he did not credit the governess with humane intentions.

He confessed to me naively that he was excited as if watching some action on the stage.

Then the thought struck him that the girl might have had some money settled on her, be possessed of some means, of some little fortune of her own and therefore-- He imparted this theory to his wife who shared fully his consternation.
"I can't believe the child will go away without running in to say good- bye to us," she murmured.