7/18 She'll have the small room up-stairs, looking out front, next to mine. And you must go and fetch her." "Go and fetch her, ma'am ?" "Yes. If you won't, I must." "She ain't a child, ma'am. She's twenty-five years old, and surely she can come to Exeter by herself, with a railroad all the way from Lessboro'." "There's no place a young woman is insulted in so bad as those railway carriages, and I won't have her come by herself. If she is to live with me, she shall begin decently at any rate." Martha argued the matter, but was of course beaten, and on the day fixed started early in the morning for Nuncombe Putney, and returned in the afternoon to the Close with her charge. |