The only thing that troubles me is that I have to stay just here." "It might have been better on some accounts," said she, "if you had been taken into the house; but it would have hurt you dreadfully to go up stairs, unless Uncle Isham carried you on his back, which I don't believe he could do." "Of course it's a great deal better out here," said Lawrence.

"In fact this is a perfectly charming place to be laid up in, but I want to get about.

I want to see people." "Many people ?" asked she, with a significant little smile.
Lawrence smiled in return.

"You must know, Mrs Null, from what I have told you," he said, "that there is one person I want to see very much, and that is why I am so annoyed at being kept here in this chair." "You must be of an uncommonly impatient turn of mind," she said, "for you haven't been here three hours, altogether, and hundreds of persons sit still that long, just because they want to." "I don't want to sit still a minute," said Lawrence.

"I very much wish to speak to Miss March.