`` Elizabeth was always very independent , '' remarked George . `` Perhaps she thought your letter savoured of charity or pity . No Ingelow would endure that . '' `` At any rate , you know she refused to come , even for a visit . She said she could not leave the farm . She may refuse to let her child come . '' `` It wo n't do any harm to ask her , '' said George . In the end , Charlotte wrote to Elizabeth and asked her to let her daughter visit the old homestead . The letter was written and mailed in much perplexity and distrust when once the glow of momentary enthusiasm in the new idea had passed . `` What if Elizabeth 's child is like her father ? '' queried Charlotte in a half-whisper . `` Let us hope she wo n't be ! '' cried Ellen fervently . Indeed , she felt that a feminine edition of James Sheldon would be more than she could endure . `` She may not like us , or our ways , '' sighed Charlotte . `` We do n't know how she has been brought up . She will seem like a stranger after all . I really long to see Elizabeth 's child , but I ca n't help fearing we have done a rash thing , Ellen . '' `` Perhaps she may not come , '' suggested Ellen , wondering whether she hoped it or feared it . But Worth Sheldon did come .
Elizabeth XXXXX back a prompt acceptance , with no trace of the proud bitterness that had permeated her answer to the former invitation .
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