"If you do," he wrote, "you have but to say so, and though I am
committed, I will extricate myself in some way rather than wound you
in the slightest degree."
It would be some time ere an answer to this letter could be received,
and until such time Guy could not honorably hear Maddy's lessons as he
had agreed to do. But Maddy was not suspicious, and accepting his
trivial excuse, waited patiently, while he, too, waited for the
letter, wondering what it would contain.