CHAPTER THE THIRTEENTH.
Second Appearance of Jicks FIVE more days passed.
During that interval, we saw our new neighbor constantly.

Either Oscar came to the rectory, or we went to Browndown.

Reverend Finch waited, with a masterly assumption of suspecting nothing, until the relations between the two young people were ripe enough to develop into relations of acknowledged love.

They were already (under Lucilla's influence) advancing rapidly to that point.

You are not to blame my poor blind girl, if you please, for frankly encouraging the man she loved.