"Dreadfully ill--I don't see it!" the young man cried. And then to
Morgan: "Why on earth didn't you relieve me? Why didn't you answer my
letter?"
Mrs. Moreen declared that when she wrote he was very bad, and Pemberton
learned at the same time from the boy that he had answered every letter
he had received. This led to the clear inference that Pemberton's note
had been kept from him so that the game practised should not be
interfered with. Mrs. Moreen was prepared to see the fact exposed, as
Pemberton saw the moment he faced her that she was prepared for a good
many other things. She was prepared above all to maintain that she had
acted from a sense of duty, that she was enchanted she had got him over,
whatever they might say, and that it was useless of him to pretend he
didn't know in all his bones that his place at such a time was with
Morgan. He had taken the boy away from them and now had no right to
abandon him. He had created for himself the gravest responsibilities and
must at least abide by what he had done.
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