Chapter 124

• (Hugh Ashcroft's Point of View)
• "You are not connected with Margaret 'Maggie' Whitmore by family. Otherwise, you have not acknowledged your true feelings. Clara can understand you, I think," Oliver Whitfield mentioned, trying to comfort me.
• "Clara won't understand. I've spent most of my life in this manner; I don't want something to happen now. I've thought well over Dr. Eliza Morton's nature. I shouldn't be able to trust her. It's better for everyone if I leave before she bothers me again with threats."