Of Mr.Slope he made no mention whatsoever.
It was then settled that Mr.Harding should go out to Plumstead on the following day, and after considerable discussion on the matter the archdeacon proposed to ask Eleanor there also, so as to withdraw her, if possible, from Mr.Slope's attentions.

"A week or two," said he, "may teach her what he is, and while she is there she will be out of harm's way.

Mr.Slope won't come there after her." Eleanor was not a little surprised when her brother-in-law came back and very civilly pressed her to go out to Plumstead with her father.
She instantly perceived that her father had been fighting her battles for her behind her back.

She felt thankful to him, and for his sake she would not show her resentment to the archdeacon by refusing his invitation.

But she could not, she said, go on the morrow; she had an invitation to drink tea at the Stanhopes, which she had promised to accept.