How delightful it would have been if he had not refused to be there too , to welcome Elizabeth 's child . Worth came to hearts prepared to love her , but they must have loved her in any case . In a day Aunt Charlotte and Aunt Ellen and shy , quiet Uncle George had yielded wholly to her charm . She was girlishly bright and merry , frankly delighted with the old homestead and the quaint , old-fashioned , daintily kept rooms . Yet there was no suggestion of gush about her ; she did not go into raptures , but her pleasure shone out in eyes and tones . There was so much to tell and ask and remember the first day that it was not until the second morning after her arrival that Worth asked the question her aunts had been dreading . She asked it out in the orchard , in the emerald gloom of a long arcade of stout old trees that Grandfather Ingelow had planted fifty years ago . `` 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 .
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