CHAPTER 4: The Squire's Granddaughter.
The following day another council was held, and Mrs.Walsham told the sergeant that, on thinking it over, she had concluded that the best way would be to take the old butler at the Hall, who had served the family for forty-five years, into their confidence, and to ask him to arrange how best Aggie might be introduced to the squire.
"I have been thinking over what you said, ma'am, and it may be that you are right, and that I have partly misjudged the squire.

I hope so, for Aggie's sake, and yet I cannot help feeling sorry.

I have always felt almost sure he would have nothing to say to her, and I have clung to the hope that I should not lose my little girl.

I know, of course, how much better it will be for her, and have done all I could to make her so that she should be fit for it, if he took her.

But it will be a wrench, ma'am.