She had gone down to Ongar Park, and, as far as the woman at the house knew, intended to remain there till after Easter.
Harry had some undefined idea that she should not have taken such a step without telling him.

Had she not declared to him that he was her only friend?
When a friend is going out of town, leaving an only friend behind, that friend ought to tell her only friend what she is going to do, otherwise such a declaration of only-friendship means nothing.

Such was Harry Clavering's reasoning, and having so reasoned, he declared to himself that it did mean nothing, and was very pressing to Florence Burton to name an early day.

He had been with Cecilia, he told her--he had learned to call Mrs.Burton Cecilia in his letters--and she quite agreed with him that their income would be enough.

He was to have two hundred a year from his father, having brought himself to abandon that high-toned resolve which he had made some time since, that he would never draw any part of his income from the parental coffers.