Mrs.Clavering then remained with Lady Clavering for two or three hours; but just before dinner on the same day another messenger came across to say that hope was past, and that the child had gone.

Could Mrs.Clavering come over again, as Lady Clavering was in a sad way?
"You'll have your dinner first ?" said the rector.
"No, I think not.

I shall wish to make her take something, and I can do it better if I ask for tea for myself.

I will go at once.

Poor dear little boy." "It was a blow I always feared," said the rector to his daughter as soon as his wife had left them.