Margaret had imagined nothing less than that some of the preferments which her mother had so much desired had befallen her father at last--something that would force him to leave beautiful, beloved Helstone, and perhaps compel him to go and live in some of the stately and silent Closes which Margaret had seen from time to time in Cathedral towns. 
Margaret had imagined that the preferment which her mother so much desired had befallen her father at last - and would force him to leave beloved Helstone, to perhaps go and live in a stately Cathedral Close. 