For my part, I wonder that Godfrey is coming here at all.

As I look back and remember all that happened--I don't think that anyone at Old Place behaved either kindly or fairly to him--I mean about our engagement." Miss Pendarth was moved as well as surprised by Betty's quiet words.

The girl was extraordinarily reserved--she very rarely spoke out her secret thoughts.

But Miss Pendarth was destined to be even more surprised, for Betty suddenly put out her hand, and laid it on the other's arm.
"I want to tell you," she said earnestly, "that as far as I am concerned, everything that happened then is quite, quite over.

I don't think that Godfrey would have been happy with me, and so I feel that we both had a great escape.