Apparently Peg was half trying to improve herself.
There was a distinct note of seriousness about the last letter. It
was drawing near the end of the month and she was going to ask her
aunt to let her stay on for another month if her father did not
mind. She did not want him to be unhappy, and if he was miserable
without her, why she would sail back to New York on the very first
steamer. He wrote her a long affectionate letter, telling her that
whatever made her happy would make HIM, too, and that she must not,
on any account, think of returning to New York if she found that she
was helping her future by staying with her aunt. All through the
letter he kept up apparent high spirits, and ended it with a cheery
exhortation to stay away from him just as long as she could; not to
think of returning until it was absolutely necessary.
It was with a heavy heart he posted that letter. Back of his brain
he had hoped all through that month that Peg would refuse to stay
any longer in England.
Her determination to stay was a severe blow to him.
He lived entirely alone in the same rooms he had with Peg when she
was summoned abroad.
He was preparing, in his spare time, a history, of the Irish
movement from twenty years before down to the present day.
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