After that Katie never called Charley Mr.Macassar again.
They all went to church, and Katie was left to sleep or read, or think of the new purse that she was to make, as best she might.
And then they dined, and then they walked out; but still without Katie.

She was to get up and dress while they were out, so as to receive them in state in the drawing-room on their return.

Four of them walked together; for Uncle Bat now usually took himself off to his friend at Hampton Court on Sunday afternoon.

Mrs.
Woodward walked with Charley, and Harry and Linda paired together.
'Now,' said Charley to himself, 'now would have been the time to have told Mrs.Woodward everything, but for that accident of yesterday.

Now I can tell her nothing; to do so now would be to demand her sympathy and to ask for assistance;' and so he determined to tell her nothing.
But the very cause which made Charley dumb on the subject of his own distresses made Mrs.Woodward inquisitive about them.