5/6 If Woodbine Lodge ever looks upon me rebukingly, I will try to acknowledge the justice of the rebuke. I will accept Mr.Willet's kind offer to-morrow. But what have you to say, Fanny ?" Mr.Markland now turned to his daughter, who had not ventured a word on the subject, though she had listened with apparent interest to the conference. "Shall we take Mr.Walker's cottage ?" "Your judgment must decide that, father," was answered. Do as seems best, father." A silence, made in a measure oppressive by Fanny's apparent indifference to all change, followed. |