If we continue in these rooms there must be no mixing in with your people below.

I can't stand it, and that's the truth." She had been sadly surprised at the suddenness of his distaste for those old-fashioned woodland forms of life which in his courtship he had professed to regard with so much interest.

But she assented in a moment.
"We must be simply your father's tenants," he continued, "and our goings and comings must be as independent as if we lived elsewhere." "Certainly, Edgar--I quite see that it must be so." "But you joined in with all those people in my absence, without knowing whether I should approve or disapprove.

When I came I couldn't help myself at all." She, sighing: "Yes--I see I ought to have waited; though they came unexpectedly, and I thought I had acted for the best." Thus the discussion ended, and the next day Fitzpiers went on his old rounds as usual.

But it was easy for so super-subtle an eye as his to discern, or to think he discerned, that he was no longer regarded as an extrinsic, unfathomed gentleman of limitless potentiality, scientific and social; but as Mr.Melbury's compeer, and therefore in a degree only one of themselves.