Indeed, he had been specially commissioned by Julia to press upon her sister the expediency of leaving Clavering for a while.

This had been early on that last evening in Bolton Street, long before Madam Gordeloup had made her appearance.
"Tell her from me," Lady Ongar had said, "that I will go anywhere that she may wish if she will go with me--she and I alone; and, Harry, tell her this as though I meant it.

I do mean it.

She will understand why I do not write myself.

I know that he sees all her letters when he is with her." This task Harry was now to perform, and the result he was bound to communicate to Lady Ongar.