It is not fit that you should be so much alone." "I do not feel it." "It is very melancholy for you, and cannot be good for you.

They will go down to The Horns, so that you will not be absolutely in London, and you will find Lady Cantrip a very nice person." "I don't care for new people just now, papa," she said.

But to this he paid but little heed; nor was she prepared to say that she would not do as he directed.

When therefore he left Matching, she understood that he was going to prepare a temporary home for her.
Nothing further was said about Tregear.

She was too proud to ask that no mention of his name should be made to Lady Cantrip.