When would he dine with them?
Could he not come that day--it must be so dull for him the first Sunday evening in country lodgings?
Halborough replied that it would give him much pleasure, but that he feared he must decline.

'I am not altogether alone,' he said.

'My sister, who has just returned from Brussels, and who felt, as you do, that I should be rather dismal by myself, has accompanied me hither to stay a few days till she has put my rooms in order and set me going.

She was too fatigued to come to church, and is waiting for me now at the farm.' 'Oh, but bring your sister--that will be still better! I shall be delighted to know her.

How I wish I had been aware! Do tell her, please, that we had no idea of her presence.' Halborough assured Mrs.Fellmer that he would certainly bear the message; but as to her coming he was not so sure.