A man can always do these things sooner than a lady can.

But you will come out afterwards ?" To this she assented, and then she was left alone throughout the morning.
The walk she did not mind.

That she and Captain Aylmer should walk together was all very well.

They might probably have done so had Mrs.
Winterfield been still alive.

It was the long evening afterwards that she dreaded--the long winter evening, in which she would have to sit with him as his guest, and with him only.