26/33 My cousin Mary was staying at the house whilst I was there. She had more reasonable views than Mrs.Goodall, but took a great interest in what was going on. In the ordinary course of things I shouldn't have met her, but she served in a shop where I went two or three times to get a newspaper; we talked a little--with absolute propriety on my part, I assure you--and she knew that I was a friend of the Goodalls. The girl had no parents, and she was on the point of going to London to live with a married sister. I saw her at Upchurch Station, but we didn't speak, and I got into a smoking carriage. |