Poor Florence! Had he been more like them it might have been safer for her.
But we must return for a moment to the wonderful interview which has been mentioned.

Florence, during her sojourn at Clavering, had become intimate with Mr.Saul, as well as with Fanny.

She had given herself for the time heartily to the schools, and matters had so far progressed with her that Mr.Saul had on one occasion scolded her soundly.

"It's a great sign that he thinks well of you," Fanny had said.

"It was the only sign he ever gave me, before he spoke to me in that sad strain." On the afternoon of this, her last day at Clavering, she had gone over to Cumberly Green with Fanny, to say farewell to the children, and walked back by herself; as Fanny had not finished her work.