Dexter's interview with Helen was long and painful, for at first it
seemed as if she had lost all confidence and hope in the boy, till,
realising all this, he cried in a wild outburst of grief--"I know how
wrong it all was, but nearly everybody here seemed to dislike me, and I
did tell the truth about the boat, but no one believes. Do--do ask him
to send me away."
There was a long silence here, as, for the first time, in spite of a
hard fight, Dexter could not keep back his tears.