The Miss Duvidneys had left the hotel yesterday for the furnished house facing the sea.

According to arrangements, she had a livery-stable hack, and had that morning trotted out to the downs with a riding-master and company, one of whom was 'an agreeable lady.' He noticed approvingly her avoidance of an allusion to the 'Delphica' of Mr.Durance's incomprehensible serial story, or whatever it was; which, as he had shown her, annoyed him, for its being neither fact nor fun; and she had insisted on the fun; and he had painfully tried to see it or anything of a meaning; and it seemed to him now, that he had been humiliated by the obedience to her lead: she had offended by her harping upon Delphica.

However, here it was unmentioned.

He held the letter out to seize it in the large, entire.
Her handwriting was good, as good as the writing of the most agreeable lady on earth.

Dudley did not blame her for letting the lady be deceived in her--if she knew her position.