5/24 For my part I think my lord would be content to wait longer; for so long as he is happy and sees others cheerful he is not one to hurry or worry. But Sir Harry is the impatient one: and has begun to talk of his decease. He doesn't believe in it a bit, and at times when he composes his features and attempts to be lugubrious I have to take up a book and hide my smiles. But he is clever enough to see that it worries George." "I saw both your father and mother this morning. Mr.Raymond has been kept to the house by a chill; nothing serious: but he is fretting to be out again and at work in that draughty church. |