text:  Why should she hold her head down as she had never done before? Why strain her eyes upon her work and ply her needle as though her life depended on the haste with which she wrought? Thus might she receive a foe; better treatment surely merited so good a friend? "Miss Graham " said at length the resolute yet timid man "do I judge rightly? Your father has communicated to you our morning's conversation?" "He has sir " answered Margaret too softly for any but a lover's ear