often listened in that place.
“Have you any intention of going away again?” Agnes asked me, as I was standing by.
“What does my sister say to that?”
“I hope not.”
“Then I have no such intention, Agnes.”
“I think you ought not, Trotwood, since you ask me,” she said, mildly. “Your growing reputation and success enlarge your power of doing good; and if I could spare my brother,” with her eyes upon me, “perhaps the time could not.”
“What I am, you have made me, Agnes. You should know best.”
“ I made you, Trotwood?”
“Yes! Agnes, my dear girl!” I said, bending over her. “I tried to tell you, when we met today, something that has been in my thoughts since Dora died. You remember, when you came down to me in our little room—pointing upward, Agnes?”