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I indulged in some very serious thoughts after Mr. Grey's departure. A fact was / borne in upon me to which I had hitherto closed my prejudiced eyes, but which I / could no longer ignore, whatever confusion it brought or however it caused me / to change my mind on a subject which had formed one of the strongest bases to / the argument by which I had sought to save Mr. Durand. Miss Grey cherished no / such distrust of her father as I, in my ignorance of their relations, had / imputed to her in the early hours of my ministrations. This you have already / seen in my account of their parting. Whatever his dread, fear or remorse, there / was no evidence that she felt toward him anything but love and confidence: but / love and confidence from her to him were in direct contradiction to the doubts / I had believed her to have expressed in the half-written note handed to Mrs. / Fairbrother in the alcove.
Had I been wrong, then, in attributing this scrawl / to her? It began to look so. Though forbidden to allow her to speak on the one / tabooed subject, I had wit enough to know that nothing would keep her from it, / if the fate of Mrs. Fairbrother occupied any real place in her thoughts.