I know you don't believe it, but a man really has some things which he must do." "I don't disbelieve you, Captain Aylmer." "But you must write to me daily if I do go." To this Clara made no objection;--and she must write also to some one else.

She must let her cousin know how little chance there was that she would be at home at Christmas, explaining to him at the same time that his visit to her father would on that account be all the more welcome.
"Are you going to her now ?" he asked, as Clara got up immediately after breakfast.

"I shall be in the house all the morning, and if you want me you will of course send for me." "She may perhaps like to see you." "I will come up every now and again.

I would remain there altogether, only I should be in the way." Then he got a newspaper and made himself comfortable over the fire, while she went up to her weary task in her aunt's room.
Neither on that day nor on the next did the lawyer come, and on the following morning all earthly troubles were over with Mrs.
Winterfield.

It was early on the Sunday morning that she died, and late on the Saturday evening Mr.Palmer had sent up to say that he had been detained at Taunton, but that he would wait on Mrs.
Winterfield early on the Monday morning.