`` Aunt Charlotte , when is Uncle Paul coming up to see me ? I long to see him ; Mother has talked so much to me about him . She was his favourite sister , was n't she ? '' Charlotte and Ellen looked at each other . Ellen nodded slyly . It would be better to tell Worth the whole truth at once . She would certainly find it out soon . `` I do not think , my dear , '' said Aunt Charlotte quietly , `` that your Uncle Paul will be up to see you at all . '' `` Why not ? '' asked Worth , her serious grey eyes looking straight into Aunt Charlotte 's troubled dark ones . Aunt Charlotte understood that Elizabeth had never told Worth anything about her family 's resentment of her marriage . It was not a pleasant thing to have to explain it all to Elizabeth 's child , but it must be done . `` I think , my dear , '' she said gently , `` that I will have to tell you a little bit of our family history that may not be very pleasant to hear or tell . Perhaps you do n't know that when your mother married we -- we -- did not exactly approve of her marriage . Perhaps we were mistaken ; at any rate it was wrong and foolish to let it come between us and her as we have done . But that is how it was . None of us approved , as I have said , but none of us was so bitter as your Uncle Paul . Your mother was his favourite sister , and he was very deeply attached to her . She was only a year younger than he . When he bought the Greenwood farm she went and kept house for him for three years before her marriage .
When she married , XXXXX was terribly angry .
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