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Bayre tried to look as if he did not understand what it was that the pretty girl was sorry for. But Miss Eden made short work of his pretended ignorance by saying gently, --
"I have an idea about your uncle; it is an idea formed upon his treatment of me and it seems to be consistent with his treatment of you. Although he sent for me himself from the school where I was, and wrote me a nice letter implying that he and his cousin were lonely and that they would be glad to have me, yet now I'm here he seems to avoid me as much as he can. And now, you see, when he knows that his nephew is here -- for that he recognised you as his nephew I am pretty sure from something he said -- why, he avoids you too."