As long as your uncle was so devoted to her and so considerate, she thought it a kind of disloyalty to inquire as to the rest of his life.

Once I remember, twenty years ago, when that poor distraught creature came to me--I went straight to Angela and tried to get her to use her influence with her uncle for the girl's sake.

But at the first hint, she locked herself in her room and refused to let me come near her.

Then it was that I had that terrible quarrel with Mr.
Gay, and he hardly spoke to me again as long as he lived.

I believe, though, he would have married Janet after my talk with him except for Angela's illness, which was brought on by the shock of hearing him speak of his intention." She sighed wonderingly, her anxious frown deepening between her eyebrows.