He only wants to see the girls about the school, but if he catches us he'll keep us for an hour." Then Harry asked after Mr.Saul's love-affairs.

"I've not heard one single word about it since you went away," said the rector.

"It seems to have passed off like a dream.

He and Fanny go on the same as ever, and I suppose he knows that he made a fool of himself." But in this matter the rector of Clavering was mistaken.

Mr.
Saul did not by any means think that he made a fool of himself.
"He has never spoken a word to me since," said Fanny to her brother that evening; "that is, not a word as to what occurred then.