Chapter 38

"My dear," said Mr. Ladd, with an uncertain smile, "I am thinking of sending you on a visit to your Aunt Sarah’s. It will be better for both of us to stay apart for a time, and see matters with a little more calmness and--consideration for each other. There’s no sense in being over-hasty, and making momentous resolutions in this twinkling-of-an-eye sort of way. There’s lots of time--oceans of time. You may change, I may change--for I don’t set up to be inflexible, and neither do you. Yes, you’ll go to your Aunt…