I'm spoilt for a solicitor
anyway--"
"We could find an agency, Miles, couldn't we?--or a farm--"
"Thank you, dear aunt," said Archie; "I don't definitely answer,
because Mr. Bowater must be consulted; but I have a business out
there that I can do, and where I can make a competence that I can
fairly offer to Jenny here. If I came home, as I am now, I should
only prey on you in some polite form, and I don't think Jenny would
wish for that alternative. I must go back any way, as I have told
her, and whether to save for her, or to make a home for her there,
it must be for her to decide."
They looked at Jenny. She was evidently prepared; for though her
colour rose a little, her frank eyes looked at him with a confiding
smile.
"But we must have justice done to you, my dear boy, whether you stay
with us or not," said Mrs. Poynsett.
"That might have been done if I had not been fool enough to run
away," said Archie; "having done so, the mass of people will only
remember that there has been something against me, in spite of any
justification.
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