And then the carriage drove off, and Herbert returned into the morning sitting-room with his sister Mary.
"I'll tell you what it is, Master Herbert," said Mary.
"Well--what is it ?" "You are going to fall in love with her young ladyship." "Am I?
Is that all you know about it?
And who are you going to fall in love with pray ?" "Oh! his young lordship, perhaps; only he ought to be about ten years older, so that I'm afraid that wouldn't do.

But Clara is just the age for you.

It really seems as though it were all prepared ready to your hand." "You girls always do think that those things are ready prepared;" and so saying, Herbert walked off with great manly dignity to some retreat among his own books and papers, there to meditate whether this thing were in truth prepared for him.

It certainly was the fact that the house did seem very blank to him now that Clara was gone; and that he looked forward with impatience to the visit which it was so necessary that he should make on the following day to Clady.
The house at Castle Richmond was very silent and quiet that day.

When Emmeline came back, she and her sister remained together.