Come along, child, get up beside me, Hammond will take the back seat.' This was easier said than done, for the back of the dogcart was piled with Gladstone bags, fishing rods, and hat-boxes; but Umbra was ready to oblige.

He handed Mary up to the seat by the driver, and clambered up at the back, when he hooked himself on somehow among the luggage.
'Dear Maulevrier, how delicious of you to come!' said Mary, when they were rattling on towards Fellside; 'I hope you are going to stay for ages.' 'Well, I dare say, if you make yourself very agreeable, I may stay till after Easter.' Mary's countenance fell.
'Easter is in three weeks,' she said, despondingly.
'And isn't three weeks an age, at such a place as Fellside?
I don't know that I should have come at all on this side of the August sports, only as the grandmother was ill, I thought it a duty to come and see her.

A fellow mayn't care much for ancestors when they're well, you know; but when a poor old lady is down on her luck, her people ought to look after her.

So, here I am; and as I knew I should be moped to death here----' 'Thank you for the compliment,' said Mary.
'I brought Hammond along with me.

Of course, I knew Lesbia was safe out of the way,' added Maulevrier in an undertone.
'It is very obliging of Mr.Hammond always to go where you wish,' returned Mary, who could not help a bitter feeling when she remembered her grandmother's cruel suggestion.